Overview
- Henao speaks for the first time on camera, reflecting on his decade-long cocaine empire from the courtyard of La Picota prison
- He built a covert network between 1993 and 2003, using his role as bus driver on London route 134 to conceal trafficking routes from Colombia through Spain into the UK
- A 100-officer Metropolitan Police operation in November 2003 culminated in his arrest and a 19-year sentence at Southwark Crown Court for importing over £1 billion in cocaine
- After surviving cartel threats in Colombia, he gained indefinite leave to remain in the UK through his wife’s successful asylum appeal following two refusals
- Blacklisted as a ‘career criminal’ by SOCA, he is detained as a VIP inmate in Bogotá’s La Picota and faces extradition to the United States on drug charges