If you were 65 and had just won £2.5million on the lottery, what would you spend it on? Spiby is only the latest of a series of pensioners to be jailed for involvement in major drug plots. Others include 'gangster gran' Deborah Mason, 65, a grandmother and mother of seven children who ran an £80million trafficking network in London. And in Gateshead, 66-year-old Peter Lamb masterminded a conspiracy to smuggle £120million worth of the Class A drug inside rolls of artificial grass. Just as law-abiding Britons are retiring at an older age, others are using longer healthy lifespans to engage in crime later in life.

Source: Daily Mail February 05, 2026 16:00 UTC