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Andy Pritchard Biography by Norman Parker
Andrew Pritchard was born in 1966 in Hackney in east London, in the heart of what is now known as Murder Mile. With a mother who had been one of the first waves of those from Jamaica seeking a new life in England in the early Fifties and a father from hard-working East End stock, Andrew was one of the first generation of mixed-race Londoners, exposing him to a melting pot of cultures.
Leaving school at 14, he was soon organising ‘blues’ – West Indian house parties where reggae was the music of choice and money was to be made from charging admission and selling booze and – later – weed. From here, he graduated into the acid house scene of the late Eighties, responsible for some of the biggest warehouse parties of the time. The money was rolling in…
But with it came trouble. When someone was murdered at one of his nights, wanted for questioning, he was forced to go on the run, back to his Jamaican roots. Here he learnt the tricks of the serious smuggling trade – first marijuana and later top-end counterfeit Cuban cigars.
With corrupt Customs officers at UK docks in his pocket, nothing could go wrong… until someone in his network used his supply chain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine.
When he went to meet a shipment of ‘moody’ cigars one night, he was jumped by a Customs task force and unceremoniously nicked. The cigars turned out to be half a tonne of premium-grade cocaine. Following two trials, at enormous expense to the taxpayer and exposing widespread corruption within Customs, he was acquitted after 18 months on remand.
Now he is finally free to tell his tale of just how easy it is to import ship-loads of contraband into the UK, and how those who seek to prevent it are hampered most of all by corrupt members of their own organisations.
Here, then, is the inside story of how to become… an urban smuggler.
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