Drug dealers have been jailed for their part in an organised gang’s cocaine distribution and shipping racket.

The group of 11, who had members from London and Kent, distributed more than 40 kilos of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of £1.4m across the capital during a three-week period in February last year.

Analysis of their mobile devices revealed they sent a group text message to more than 400 potential clients, bragging that they could deliver anywhere “within 30mins central London and within an hour anywhere else”.

Dean Standen, of Sanley Close, Eltham, and Niall Kellaghan of Footscray Road in New Eltham, were sentenced to seven years, nine months and seven years, for their roles in the crime.

Forfeiture applications were heard at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court on November 25 against Kellaghan, 34, and Standen, 32, in relation to cash seized at time of their arrest.

As a result, £27,000 has been confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Danny Ward, 34, of Headingly Drive in Beckenham, was sentenced to eight years.

The men, along with seven others, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply class A drugs.

Spencer Barnett, from the Organised Crime Partnership, said: “This was a highly disciplined crime group who went to elaborate lengths to stay under the radar of law enforcement, using safe houses, throw-away mobile phones and mopeds to try and avoid detection.

“They spent the proceeds of their crime on hotels, holidays and gambling.

“At the time of their arrest the group was planning another significant importation of cocaine from South America which would have been used for street deals across London, impacting significantly upon communities.

“By dismantling their operation we have been able to prevent the harm that would have been caused.”

Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership and a joint National Crime Agency and Met Police began investigating the group in spring 2015.

In March 2016 officers arrested 13 people in a coordinated series of strikes across London and Essex.

They seized more than £164,600, about 10 kilos of class A drugs, 14 kilos of cutting agent, more than 100 mobile phones and six mopeds.

Analysis of seized mobile devices provided officers with information about meetings and safe houses across London that were used to store drugs.

Other messages showed the group planned to import 70 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador to Spain for onwards distribution across the UK.

On 2 October 2015 at Kingston Crown Court, the following were sentenced for supplying class A drugs:

- Charles Side, 36 of Gravesend, Kent, sentenced to three years and eight months

- Steven Glibanks, 27, of Islington, London, sentenced to four years and eight months

The following were sentenced on 23 December 2016 at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to conspiring to supply cocaine:

- Joseph Maloney, 33, of Commercial Street, Shoreditch, sentenced to 15 years

- Jay Tripp, 34, of Elmbridge Hall, Fyfield Essex, sentenced to 13 years

- Jack Lyman, 28, of Burlington House, Surrey Quays, sentenced to seven years

- Frederick Jennings, 20, of Chesterfield Way sentenced to 21 months suspended to 18 months.

- Daniel Crook, 32, of Mapledene Road, Hackney, sentenced to five years.

On February 24 at the Old Bailey:

- Daniel Harris, 34, of Piercing Hill, Theydon Bois, Epping, sentenced to two years.

Tripp, Ward and Crook were all also charged with conspiracy to supply heroin on May 7, 2015 and received consequtive sentences of three and five years increasing their sentences to sixteen years and six months, eleven years and five years.