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The 'Escobar' of Britain: The Rise and Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin

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The 'Escobar' of Britain: The Rise and Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin
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Jesús Ruiz Henao, also known as the 'Escobar' of Britain, reveals his story in the documentary 'The Bus Driver: Britain’s Cocaine King.' The 63-year-old Colombian, currently a prisoner in a maximum-security prison, describes how he went from being a bus driver in London to the head of a vast cocaine trafficking network.

Henao fled to London in the 1990s and worked as a bus driver while organizing the import of cocaine from Colombia via Spain. He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 19 years in prison for importing cocaine worth over £1 billion.

Henao justified his wealth with the popular spot-the-ball competition, a newspaper game where participants guessed the position of the ball in a football photo.

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