How Curtis 'Cocky' Warren tried to flood a sleepy island with £1m of drugs

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How Curtis 'Cocky' Warren tried to flood a sleepy island with £1m of drugs
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Warren - once dubbed 'Britain's Pablo Escobar' - has been freed from jail after serving a 14 year sentence for the failed plot to smuggle 180kg of cannabis into Jersey

Curtis Warren - once dubbed 'Britain's Pablo Escobar' - has been freed from jail after serving a 14 year sentence. Here, the M.E.N's Damon Wilkinson looks back at the plot that landed him in jail.

From there it was to be hidden in a small boat and shipped overnight to Jersey before being smuggled ashore under cover of the imposing cliffs near St Catherine's Breakwater. As the ringleader of the plot, Warren stood to take a sizeable chunk of the proceeds. By the age of 34 the one-time nightclub bouncer's empire reportedly included properties in Wales, Spain and Gambia, a winery in Bulgaria, petrol stations and apartment blocks in Turkey, a yacht, a 16-room mansion in the Netherlands and more than 200 rental properties in Liverpool.

Warren was moved to the formidable Nieuw Vosseveld maximum security jail. Four years were later added to his sentence when he was convicted of the manslaughter of Turkish inmate Cemal Guclu by kicking him in the head, after the convicted killer launched an unprovoked attack in the prison yard. On June 30, Warren flew from Manchester Airport into Jersey for the first time, where he visited the secluded location on the island's east coast being earmarked for the drop-off point. It was around this time he was recorded referring to the plan as a 'just a little starter', suggesting that, if successful, bigger jobs would follow.

Warren watched by video link from Belmarsh prison in London as judge Sir Richard Tucker said: "We do not sentence him because of his record or notoriety. Nevertheless he has been shown to be the mastermind behind the planned importation."

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