This is the astonishing footage of a high-tech drugs lab in action which saw an ecstasy-dealing kingpin placed behind bars.

When officers probed Jamie Stacey-Evans’ phone, a video showed machinery grinding crystalised MDMA into powder and repressing it back into pills.

A further electronic gadget was filmed rumbling, rapidly counting thousands of pills containing the class A drug, in preparation for wholesale supply.

Not only did the 35-year-old store his laboratory exploits on his phone, but he could be heard in voice notes discussing orders to potentially produce as many as 100,000 ecstasy pills.

On January 23, police executed a search warrant at Stacey-Evans’ Coxheath home in Tree Court, as part of an investigation into the supply of drugs across the county.

The ‘Jay line’ network had been operating since May 2024 and several phones used by Stacey-Evans were seized from the property.

This led to the retrieval of multiple videos and voice recordings connecting him to the wholesale supply of cocaine, MDMA, ecstasy, ketamine and cannabis.

Another audio clip indicated his involvement in the supply of 20 kilograms of cocaine.

He was charged with three counts of being concerned in the supply of drugs and with being concerned in the production of drugs.

He was further charged with possessing criminal property, in relation to more than £3,000 cash seized from his home.

The investigation did not lead officers to where the lab and machinery were located.

Stacey-Evans pleaded guilty at Canterbury Court and on May 20 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

PC James O’Gorman, who led the investigation, said: “The vast amount of evidence recovered from his phone clearly illustrated that Stacey-Evans was producing and supplying drugs on a commercial scale.

“He was intent on flooding the market with huge quantities of illegal substances, and some of the evidence recovered from his phones also included him discussing using a network of runners operating in fake business vans.

“Stacey-Evans has rightly received a significant sentence, one which is indicative of the leading role he occupied, as well as the harm and devastation criminals like him cause to our communities”.