Glasgow crime gang member hit with ‘super-Asbo’ after being jailed

John Barry McDuff, 40, was snared after the law authorities smashed the EncroChat phone network favoured by criminals.

Scores of hacked messages uncovered what the 40-year-old and his associates were up to.

One fellow dealer boasted to McDuff how they had “the biggest network in Glasgow”.

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He was previously crowned Mr Scotland in 2012 after winning the 90kg category at the National Amateur Bodybuilding Championships.

McDuff – who latterly worked at a sports nutrition stores in the city’s West End – was jailed for seven years in September after he admitted to a charge of being involved in serious organised crime in 2020.

A further hearing took place at the High Court in Glasgow today after prosecutors moved for a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) to be imposed on him.

These are designed to tackle and monitor criminals whenever they are freed from prison.

Lord Arthurson – the judge who sentenced McDuff – hit him with a SCPO lasting four years.

McDuff was in the same criminal network as fellow dealer 37-year-old Paul Easdon – known on EncroChat as “glasgowceltic”.

The pair had chats discussing consignments of cocaine and heroin.

Flash Easdon – who boasted the cartel was raking in £4m-a-month – was jailed for six years in October after he admitted to the same charge as McDuff at a separate hearing.