UK woman, 65, led family-operated drug trafficking ring

This grandma had a mean streak.

A drug-dealing nan who moved more than a ton of cocaine across the UK will spend the next 20 years locked up behind bars.

Deborah Mason, nicknamed “Queen Bee” by England’s deadliest underworld, and seven of her relatives — including her sister and some of her kids — oversaw the cartel and its $107 million narcotics ring.

The familial crew operated over a seven-month period from April to November 2023, The Guardian reported.

Mason, 65, also known as the “Gangster Granny,” was sentenced alongside her daughter and others on Friday inside a London courtroom.

Prosecutors contend packages of coke were imported, and then couriers helped spread the goods across London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leicester.

The senior kingpin used her profits from the lucrative drug operation, prosecutors said, to buy up luxury designer goods and fund plastic surgery she had in Turkey.

“You recruited members of your own family — as a mother, you should have been setting an example for your children and not corrupting them,” said Judge Philip Shorrock before handing down her lengthy sentence.

“Everyone involved had an expectation of significant financial advantage,” said prosecutor Charlotte Hole, “and it is one of the most significant parts of the motivation of the conspiracy.

“They all had an awareness of the scale of the operation.”

Mason’s daughter, 29-year-old Roseanne Mason — who received an 11-year sentence — was responsible for collections. She even babysit the kids of the other couriers so they could work.

Other members of the gang received 13- and 15-year sentences for the various roles they played in the ring.

Investigators had surveilled the gang’s members and arrested them in May 2024.

“This was a sophisticated operation which was extremely profitable for those involved,” explained DC Jack Kraushaar, who led the investigation.

“Following months of work by the Met police to relentlessly pursue these perpetrators, we were able to arrest and eventually convict them, preventing more drugs flooding streets across the UK which leads to violence, antisocial behaviour and misery for communities.”