Overview
- Pritchard, 59, promotes a new memoir claiming his network moved hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine and cannabis and that he shipped “more cocaine than Pablo Escobar,” presenting it as his account.
- He alleges customs and police officers, plus high‑ranking officials, were on his payroll, with x‑ray machines switched off and clearance certificates issued to wave containers through.
- He details tradecraft including ecstasy hidden in apple crates, cocaine stuffed in coconuts, liquid cocaine swapped into rum bottles, and drugs routed via coffins, with shipments moving through the Netherlands.
- A £100 million cocaine haul hidden in coconuts near London’s Spitalfields market in 2004 led to his arrest; two juries failed to reach a verdict before later proceedings resulted in a 2013 conviction.
- He says he was sentenced to 15 years, won an appeal, and was released on licence in 2019, and he now runs a charitable foundation focused on prisoner rehabilitation and at‑risk youth.