A Swindon man has been jailed after supplying drug dealers with equipment

A businessman known to drug dealers as ‘Machine Guy’ for supplying them with industrial pill presses has been jailed for 13 years.

Sebastiano Sorrenti, 35, of Brean Road, Swindon, provided dealers with “professional customer service”, including a method of making 140,000 tablets of the class C drug Etizolam.

Investigations into a drug dealer in Scotland led the National Crime Agency (NCA) to Sorrento, which also had messages discussing avoiding police detection.

He was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court after pleading guilty to all charges against him.