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I too am intrigued how this bloke got caught up in it all. Looks like his wife left him, was down on his luck and did a weekly trip up the motorway every week for a wedge. Doubt he's a big player
The dashcam
You couldn’t make it up. A dash cam that automatically comes on and records everything you do outside of the car ffs
you've just summed up the episode perfectly.Damn. I forgot it was on!
4od if in BlightyIs there anywhere I can watch online I live 24 hours
What struck me was just how ordinary everyone was who was involved. Of course they were all just middlemen but I don't understand how you get into this sort of thing? Where do you get the contacts? It didn't seem like they were deep in the criminal underworld like the hatton garden lot.
I would love to know the back stories.
My mate the Barrister is always going on about the absolute mundanity of even serious crimes/criminals, none of it seems very high speed/leading edge/criminal genius type stuff
He says murder is always the sorriest bunch of fuckwittery.
I did think the sentence for the courier bloke was a bit excessive mind you. Still, good show that was. Think I prefer it like that, I'm terms of a special over a couple episodes as opposed to a series of one or two nickings each.
I felt quite sorry for the courier bloke.
Yeah, I thought that as well and wondered about the quality of his brief. Obviously we don't know all the evidence but I'm a bit surprised they couldn't raise a defence of
'I'm just a sad, desperate old man who lives alone in a static caravan. I knew what I was carrying was likely dodgy but didn't ask because I'm in a desperate situation. I had no idea it was serious drugs and wouldn't have been involved if I had knew'.
Its not like he had any previous or anything. Then again even the young Polish lad who likely did little more then unload a few boxes got given six years. The book was well and truly thrown at this lot.
Filming the 2 (very different) personal phone calls was a good move . We got to hear them actually speak. The total 'we've fuckedupness' was palpable.