‘Police? I thought they were gangsters,’ says BBC ‘chemsex’ man

An award-winning ex-BBC producer who made a rooftop getaway from a drugs raid at his reinforced flat claimed he mistook police for ‘gangsters’ coming to hurt his friend. Alexander Parkin, 42, is accused of stashing more than £10,000 worth of drugs – including crystal meth, ecstasy and GBL – and offering them for sale at his fourth fourth-floor flat in Manchester Street, Marylebone. Parkin and suspected drug dealers Bogdan Ceampelea, 27, and Ioana Costache, 28, were caught with 6.82litres of…