CHARLOTTE Church's ex-lover is among gang members behind a 60kilo Wembley heroin stash.

Three high living members of a £20m criminal network were yesterday jailed for a total of 22 years for plotting to flood the UK with Class A drugs between September 2008 and February 2010.

Police netted £6m worth of heroin on May 29, 2009, when a 29-year-old man, was stopped with three kilos of heroin in Chalkhill Road, Wembley.

Police searched the flat he had just left in nearby Bridge Road, where they found another 60kilos of the drug in boxes.

The swoop was the second in an operation that saw £10m of heroin found at the home of Kyle Johnson, 26, who sold a kiss-and-tell story about the Welsh singer after their 18-month relationship ended bitterly.

He was jailed for 12 years in 2009, while twin brother Kertis was today handed a nine year sentence alongside Duwayne Russell, 33, jailed for seven years, and Richard Difford, 43, jailed for six years.

Sentencing the trio at the Old Bailey, Judge Roger Chapple said: “Class A drugs cause untold misery, wreck lives, engender crime and the rewards can be enormous.

“Deterrent sentences are almost always appropriate.”

Marvin Campbell, 32, linked to an address where police found thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and Rolex watches, will be sentenced for his involvement later.

Quinn Hawkins, prosecuting, said the enterprise was smashed following surveillance of a house in Meath Road, Plaistow, east London, on December 4, 2008.

They arrested one accomplice outside and used his keys to raid the property.

Inside officers uncovered 149.35kilos of 60 per cent pure heroin in four boxes, worth just under £10m.

Campbell, of Bowness Road, Hackney, east London, admitted four conspiracies to supply class A drugs and three counts of possessing criminal property.

Russell, from Battersea, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin.

Kertis Johnson, of Haig Place, Cardiff, admitted three conspiracies to supply a class a drug.

Difford, of Church Road, Islington, admitted conspiracy to supply drugs, possessing criminal property and possessing CS gas.