Marc Kane tried to clamber over fences as he sought to evade armed officers sent to mop up members of the so-called Tupperware Gang.

Marc Kane (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

The 43-year-old helped run the group which used hedgerows in quiet country in Norfolk to stash cocaine in plastic pots, which they could later retrieve.

Drugs were stashed in plastic boxes in hedgerows, like in Blocka Road, St Olaves, near Great Yarmouth (Image: Newsquest/Norfolk Constabulary)

After spending months keeping the gang under surveillance, in August 2024 police raided an address in John Road, Gorleston, where Kane and another gang member Ashley Youngman had been spotted.

Ashley Youngman (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

When police got there they saw Kane in the back garden.

Marc Kane trying to scale a fence in fleeing police (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

He was then seen jumping over fences before armed officers eventually found him in a nearby garden shed.

Marc Kane caught by police in a garden shed (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

Kane, who has addresses in the Gorleston area, appeared at Norwich Crown Court for sentencing on Friday after admitting two counts of being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

The Hideout café in Gorleston (Image: Newsquest)

One count referred to a separate operation where two kilos of cocaine was supplied to Norfolk from an organised crime group (OCG) in Essex between April and August 2020.

Jailing Kane for 10 years, Judge Anthony Bate said he found the defendant had been performing a "leading role" in the operation and was "well acquainted in class A drug dealing".

Judge Anthony Bate (Image: Newsquest)

Lori Tucker,........

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