Overview

• Brian Charrington died of a heart attack at 68 in a Villajoyosa hospital on July 23, 2025.
• He had been awaiting a court decision on whether to suspend his eight-year sentence for a 2013 cocaine seizure at his Calpe villa.
• Since the 1980s he led a transnational cocaine network linking UK gangsters and Colombian cartels, amassing about £20 million in proceeds.
• His early-1990s role as police informant codenamed Enigma 1 collapsed a major Newcastle drug trial and earned him the 'Teflon Don' nickname.
• He faced convictions in Germany and France before a 2018 Spanish conviction for importing nearly 200 kilos of cocaine that carried a €31 million fine.