Judge jails ‘untouchable’ crime family including mum and gran as gang busted for drugs operation
Three members of the Mitchell clan rougher than their EastEnders namesakes are banged up for a combined 21 years
A CRIME family including the ringleader’s mum and gran have been jailed for a huge drugs operation.
The Mitchell mob kept a cache of weapons and struck fear into rival gangs just like TV fictional EastEnders namesakes Phil, Grant and Peggy.
Kingpin Joe Mitchell, 29, has been locked up for 15 years and mum Jayne, 49, his second-in-command, got six-and-a-half years.
Joe’s gran Carol, 59, the gang’s “banker”, was given nine months.
His sister Kayley, 24, was jailed for 18 months after using her home to store the drugs and guns.
And his girlfriend Vanessa Fitton, 29, got nine months.
Police said the heroin and cocaine-dealing gang was one of the most organised they had ever seen.
They were dubbed PXG — Parson Cross Gang — after their Sheffield patch.
Joe, jailed in 2009 for having a sawn-off shotgun, posed for snaps with guns and arranged them to spell his initial J and their S5 postcode.
There were also “team photographs” of gang members with their hoods up posing with weapons.
But after cops caught Joe with 64 wraps of cocaine, he was remanded in custody and they listened in to his phone calls home from his cell to nail the family.
Six others got between five and ten-and-a-half years’ jail.
Friends and relatives were in tears at a packed Sheffield crown court as the gang were sent down after admitting various charges.
Judge Simon Lawler QC said Joe ran the operation “with a culture of fear and reputation”.
Police Chief Supt David Hartley said: “The Mitchell family maybe appeared untouchable to the community — this shows they are not.”