Really good mate of mine could get serious time today
Sounds grim.
’You’ll never get this Iads, One minute i was transporting goods for a supermarket, the think you now i’ve got 8 million Jack’n’Jills sitting in the lorry.
I was though I was transporting Asda’s essential Range honest.
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Hate this kind of thing - I have a friend who started a great job working for what turned out to be a modern gangster cloaked as a successful businessman and he did 2 years during the first 2 years of his kids life. He was in a situation where the longer he worked eventually he started becoming able to see what his boss was doing but it had all started a decade before he even got the job. Still went to jail even though he didn’t mastermind or benefit from it. It all hung on replying to an email about the topic. When your boss is a gangster and he sends you an email you’re obviously going to reply and not grass him in.
There was so much injustice in it (and total waste of taxpayers money)
Need Tom Cruise to start checking hours being billed for clients to sort it out.
We need a pithy cliche from Smallman now.
Like:
“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. This is Ronnie (was he the gay one?) Kray signing off!”
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Sounds grim. Surely they’d need hard evidence linking him to the gang and involvement with the criminal activities of the gang to sentence him?
Whilst the business is his, he’s not necessarily personally responsible for checking the contents of every container the business ships. Hopefully the jury see it that way, in any case
Can he claim ‘personal use’ on the 10kg bag of yokes as he’s a mate of yours Sean?
Sean, pass on ’Tough don’t last last, tome people do.
He’ll delighted.
if his heroic weekly bugle intake was actually known to the relevant authorities that may just have been a viable strategy
Does he enjoy anal, by any chance?
Forgot about Hugo’s avatar 
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All joking aside, my best mate was scooped around the turn of the millenium for firing out a bit of gear on a weekly basis. Nowhere near the amounts you are talking about but he went inside for a year. Remember going to visits, seems grim enough. He made a couple of good mates while in there which made it easier and also kept an eye out for him. Not ideal by any means but it’s not going to be like midnight express either.
Does sound like they have something on him, sean. Maybe recorded calls, emails or a brussel sprout has tied him into the goings on?
seanc80
I hope it all goes well for your friend. I started my own courier business up in April and almost all my work is moving items between businesses although sometimes I collect items from houses & take the to a different location. I’ve said to my friends that it would be very easy for a company/person to ask me to collect & deliver something very dodgy without me knowing what I’m talking.
I hope he wins his case.
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Best of luck to your mate Sean.
Smaller scale but a lad I knew at uni basically did someone a favour by picking up and dropping off a bag of pills. Turned out that the guy who he picked up from was under surveillance, so he ended up getting nicked for it. He spent most of his second year at uni waiting for his trial to start.
Poor bastard ended up dropping out, not sure if he went down.
Anyway I’m sure many of us did some daft/reckless shit when we where younger when you look back on it. There but for the grace of god and all that.
mono-stereo There was a real life account in Mixmag around the time we were at uni (I think we’re about the same age? I was born ’80, at uni ’98-'01) that properly scared the shit out of me and all my clubbing mates at the time, I remember it well.
Basically, about a student who picked up a batch for all his mates each weekend. Anyway, he got busted and just happened to have the amount (borderline, though) where it’s possession with intent to supply. His account of how fucked his life was was proper grim stuff, just for sorting his mates out each weekend as he had the dealer’s number.