Real life Breaking Bad plot to flood Britain with crystal meth

A real life ‘Walter White’ hatched a Breaking Bad-style plot to flood Britain with crystal meth made in a drug factory inside a mobile home.

Motorcycle repairman Dudley Brennan, 31, sent accomplice Peter Weston, 40, a screenshot of an advert for a 1989 Chevrolet GMC Allegro camper.

It looked like the one White – played by actor Bryan Cranston – used to produce meth in the hit Netflix crime drama. Weston replied: “Ha, Breaking Bad.”

Brennan planned to produce 100 litres of the deadly drug – which can trigger strokes, heart attacks, convulsions and death – in just 12 hours while he drove the mobile production plant around the Lake District.

He even crowed he could claim the vehicle was for work and stick it ‘to the government as a business tax write-off’.

But National Crime Agency cops swooped before he could go into production when they raided his workshop in Kendal, Cumbria, after witnessing him taking delivery of 10 Turkish-made Ekol TVBFs guns.

The bomb squad was called in and homes in the picturesque town were evacuated after police found then-unknown chemicals in a meth lab in Brennan’s kitchen.

The duo had planned to go into mass meth production.

Weston had been previously imprisoned for conspiracy to supply cocaine.

He, Brennan and three henchmen were jailed for over 84 years at Bolton Crown Court for drugs and firearms crimes.

Police found the repairman used his business as a front to convert blank-firing guns into live weapons for gangsters fighting turf wars.

Weston, from Liverpool, ran their organised crime mob and was impressed by Brennan’s crystal meth production plan.

National Crime Agency branch commander Cat McHugh said: “When we went through Brennan’s door we did not know the full extent of the threat he posed.

“Brennan and the group were only interested in making money.

“They were a real danger to the public.”

Brennan was jailed for 22 years and three months and Weston for 26 years and nine months after they each admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and sell or transfer banned weapons.

Ryan Pilling, 29, Daniel Fitzgerald, 32, and Joshua Ee, 27, got a total of 35 years and a month after pleading guilty to the gun conspiracy.

Weston had set up a meeting at a car park in Lancaster for Brennan to take delivery of the blank-firing guns from Fitzgerald and Pilling.

Inside Brennan’s workshop cops discovered a firearms conversion factory and a Makarov-style semi-automatic pistol which was in the process of being switched to fire 9mm ammunition, a quantity of bullets and a silencer.

The gang had bought and converted 17 firearms – 12 of which have been recovered.

Police are hunting the five others.