On the afternoon of 15 September , Warren had a fight in the prison yard with Turkish national Cemal Guclu, who was serving a year sentence for murder and attempted murder. Yelling abuse at Warren, Guclu walked towards him and tried to punch him in the face.
Evading the punch, a short fight ensued, during which Guclu fell to the ground, and Warren kicked him in the head 4 times, Guclu got up and again went for Warren and was again punched to the ground. It was here he hit his head and became unconscious from which Guclu never recovered and died in hospital.
His conviction in the subsequent trial ensured his removal. Warren and several associates were arrested, with police finding three guns, ammunition; hand grenades, crates with CS gas canisters, kilograms lb of cocaine, 1, kilograms 3, lb of cannabis resin, 60 kilograms lb of heroin, 50 kilograms lb of ecstasy, and , Dutch guilder plus , US Dollars in cash. In , Warren relocated to a villa in Sassenheim in the Netherlands.
He owns casinos in Spain; discos in Turkey; a vineyard in Bulgaria; land in the Gambia; and money stashed away in Swiss bank accounts. He could have retired rich, but decided to continue. When the shipment landed in the UK in early , Charrington, Warren and twenty-six others were placed under arrest in a prosecution brought by HM Customs and Excise. However, in preliminary court procedures, it was revealed by police that Charrington was a police informant for the North-East Regional Crime Squad.
Eventually, through Conservative MP Tim Devlin, a meeting was arranged in which Customs was ordered to drop charges against Charrington on 28 January In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Teresa Rodrigues, a former senior manager at La Moye who ran the drugs and alcohol counselling unit, confesses to an affair with the barrel-chested gangster. She claims it lasted two years and only ended when he was convicted of drugs smuggling and transferred to a prison on the mainland.
There were butterflies, feelings of intense excitement. I know what Curtis is, who he is, but love overrode everything. Played out under the noses of the governor and supposedly watchful prison officers, the affair raises many questions.
Teresa Rodrigues, spent much of her time during the prison relationship with Warren in his cell. On many occasions I was able to spend a whole afternoon with Curtis in his cell. We were a couple in prison. Yet again, former bouncer Warren, who once appeared in The Sunday Times Rich List, was not so much tweaking the nose of law and order as punching it with his fist. Perhaps naively, Ms Rodrigues hopes they will resume their liaisons when he is eventually released.
It should be stated that Ms Rodrigues claimed to be speaking with the blessing of Warren. After Warren left Jersey for Belmarsh prison in South-East London to begin a year sentence for drugs smuggling in , Ms Rodrigues stayed at La Moye for another two years before returning to Lisbon.
Now she leads a less hectic life running a cake-decorating business and an art and crafts shop. She keeps in touch with Warren by phone and letter and waits patiently for him in her apartment overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She acknowledges that her account of their relationship is studded with ironies.
There is her role at the prison. She counselled drug addicts while Warren built his empire feeding their cravings. I fell in love after getting to know him. Privately educated, the daughter of a businessman and a biology teacher, she worked hard at school and later went to art college before becoming a teacher.
I was always craving excitement. A desperate on-off battle with the drug ensued, leaving her family shattered. After finally conquering her addiction at a clinic in England, she became a drugs counsellor and worked in Somerset before managing a rehabilitation unit in Jersey. She gave that up in to work full time at La Moye, a mixed prison housing around inmates. I would visit them in the their cells and my office door was always open.
My past allowed me to connect with them. Ms Rodrigues recalls the excitement his arrival caused and she looked him up on the internet.
She discovered that his disregard for the law gave him cult status in Merseyside, where T-shirts were once sold featuring his round face and bushy eyebrows. Parents on the estate where he grew up were even said to have named their sons Curtis in his honour. Then there was his form for violence, armed robbery, drugs importation and smuggling guns and hand grenades which had already cost him years of liberty. Somehow, when Ms Rodrigues cuddled up to him in his cell one day and planted a kiss, she managed to put his past to the back of her mind.
And she has been doing so ever since. Shrugging her shoulders and displaying the palms of her hands in a gesture of helplessness, she wrestles with her words. I was in love and that was all that mattered. The pair first met when she introduced herself — which she did to all new inmates — as Warren passed her in a prison corridor. Curtis made his presence felt right from the start.
He was the main man. After that, we kept bumping into each other. He was very polite and very charismatic. I was developing these strong feelings. He forged strong relationships with all the major drug producing nations around the world including Holland, Turkey, Columbia and Venezuela. Lead Ingots Warren moved from small time drug dealing into the wholesale supply and quickly stripped out the layers of middle men.
He soon began doing business directly with the notorious Cali Cartel. On one big consignment he shipped 28 tonnes of lead ingots from Venzuela to Felixstowe port. Contained inside the ingots were aluminum boxes packed with the highest quality cocaine.
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