A 65-year-old woman dubbed “Queen Bee” and “Gangster Granny” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for masterminding a massive drug ring that involved nearly her entire family—and moved close to a ton of cocaine across the UK.
Deborah Mason was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, July 18, alongside six women and one man—all members of her inner circle. In total, the gang received a combined sentence of 106 years and six months.
Mason’s crew, which included her sister, children, and their partners, helped distribute roughly 1,000 kilograms of cocaine over just seven months. Authorities say the operation had a wholesale value of up to £35 million and a street value topping £80 million—over $107 million USD.
The so-called matriarch of the operation sourced drugs from a supplier named “Bugsy,” according to court reports. She lived in Tufnell Park, north London, where she ran the operation while enjoying designer shopping sprees, lavish vacations, and reportedly planning a trip to Turkey for cosmetic surgery.
Detective Constable Jack Kraushaar, who led the investigation, called the gang’s setup “sophisticated” and “extremely profitable,” and credited relentless police work with dismantling the operation before even more drugs could hit the streets.
Among those sentenced were Mason’s children and their partners:
- Demi Bright, 30, and Roseanne Mason, 29, each got 11 years.
- Lillie Bright, 26, received 13 years.
- Reggie Bright, 24, was handed a 15-year sentence.
- Reggie’s partner, Demi Kendall, 31, got 13 years and six months.
- Mason’s sister, Tina Golding, 66, was sentenced to 10 years.
- Anita Slaughter, 44, a friend of Demi Bright, received 13 years.
One more person—Lillie Bright’s partner, Chloe Hodgkin—is still awaiting sentencing due to her pregnancy.
“This was no ordinary family,” said Robert Hutchinson of the Crown Prosecution Service. “Instead of nurturing and caring for her relatives, Deborah Mason recruited them into a highly profitable criminal empire. And it cost them all their freedom.”
The case has captivated the UK not just for the scale of the drug trade, but for the bizarre reality of a grandmother at the helm of it all—leading a family-run cartel that ended in handcuffs instead of holidays.
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