THE ‘DEVIOUS, GREEDY AND UTTERLY UNSCRUPULOUS’ MEM
THE ‘DEVIOUS, GREEDY AND UTTERLY UNSCRUPULOUS’ MEMBERS OF
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST EVER HEROIN SMUGGLING RING LOOKED STUNNED AT THE
RECORD JAIL SENTENCES HANDED OUT TO THEM AT THE OLD BAILEY ON MONDAY.
DRUG BARON PAUL DYE, 42, OF THE POYNINGS, RICHINGS PARK, IVER,
BUCKS, WHO MASTERMINDED THE #200 MILLION OPERATION, WAS SENTENCED TO
28 YEARS.
HIS RIGHTHAND MAN, CLIVE WILLIAMSON, 29, OF GAYHURST COURT,
CANBERRA DRIVE, NORTHOLT, WAS GIVEN A 17 YEARS TERM.
DAVID MILLARD, 37, OF WATERGALL, BRETON ESTATE, PETERBOROUGH, –
ONE OF THE COURIERS WHO HELPED TAKE VAST QUANTITIES OF HEROIN INTO
THE US HIDDEN IN WOMEN’S GIRDLES – WAS JAILED FOR 10 YEARS.
COURIERS
THE COURIERS WHO HAD HELPED TO TAKE THE KILLER DRUG TO AMERICA
HIDDEN IN WOMEN’S GIRDLES, ALSO RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL SENTENCES.
PETER DAVIES, 30, OF GLYNFIELD ROAD, WILLESDEN, WAS JAILED FOR
12 YEARS, DAVID MILLARD, 37, OF WATERGALL, BRETON ESTATE,
PETERBOROUGH, TO 10 YEARS, PAUL MURPHY, 30, OF ELMWOOD HOUSE,
ALLSOULS AVENUE, WILLESDEN, TO EIGHT YEARS AND GRAHAM ELLIS, 31,
OF HEADLEY ROAD, WHITTON, MIDDLESEX, TO SEVEN YEARS.
MURPHY SCREAMED ‘I’M INNOCENT’ AS HE WAS LED TO THE CELLS.
HE
WAS THE ONLY ONE TO MAKE ANY COMMENT AT THE LONG TERMS PASSED BY
JUDGE JAMES RANT QC.
THE JUDGE TOLD DYE: ‘IF I COULD HAVE PASSED A LIFE SENTENCE ON
YOU I WOULD NOT HAVE HESTITATED TO HAVE DONE SO.
‘
HE SAID HE HAD DESIGNED THE SENTENCES TO ‘SHOW THAT COURTS WILL
MAKE HEROIN PEDDLING NOT WORTH WHILE – EVEN WITH THE LARGE PROFITS
THAT ARE AVAILABLE – AND TO MARK SOCIETY’S ABHORRENCE.
‘
HE HAD EARLIER REJECTED DEFENCE SUBMISSIONS THAT HE WAS BOUND
BY LAW TO PASS A MAXIMUM OF 14 YEARS FOR THE DRUG CONSPIRACY.
HE
SAID THE GANG HAD PLANNED TWO SEPARATE OPERATIONS, ONE CHANNELING THE
PAKISTAN-MADE HEROIN TO THE UNITED STATES VIA LONDON AND THE OTHER
VIA AMSTERDAM.
FOR THAT REASON DYE WOULD GET TWO 14 YEARS SENTENCES, MAKING 28
YEARS IN ALL.
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THE JUDGE SAID THAT THE HEROIN SMUGGLING OPERATION WAS CAREFULLY
PLANNED AND WELL ORGANISED.
FORTY TO FIFTY KILOS OF THE DRUG WERE
INVOLVED IN THE INTERNATIONAL OPERATION OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS
FROM FEBRUARY, 1983 TO JULY LAST YEAR.
THE PROFITS TO BE EARNED BY THE SMUGGLERS IN THE UNITED STATES
WOULD HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS, HE CONTINUED.
‘THE FACT THAT NONE OF THIS DRUG FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE UNITED
KINGDOM MAKES NOT THE SLIGHTEST DIFFERENCE,’ HE SAID.
‘CITIZENS OF
THE UNITED STATES ARE AS MUCH ENTITLED TO BE PROTECTED AS THOSE IN
THIS COUNTRY.
‘
HEROIN WAS A SCOURGE OF SOCIETY AND IT WAS WELL KNOWN FOR THE
MISERY, DEGRADATION, CRIME AND DEATH IT COULD CAUSE.
IT PLAYED
HAVOC WITH THE LIVES OF THOSE IT TOUCHED
‘FOR THOSE REASONS THESE OFFENCES ARE EVIL AND CALLOUS IN THE
EXTREME,’ THE JUDGE WENT ON.
HE SAID DYE, WHO OWNED A #200,000 MANSION, WAS ‘HEAD AND
SHOULDERS’ ABOVE THE REST OF HIS GANG AND WAS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE
OPERATION.
HE RAN THE SMUGGLING RING MOSTLY BY TELEPHONE AND NO
DOUBT BELIEVED THAT BY KEEPING IN THE BACKGROUND HE WOULD ESCAPE
ARREST.
AND HE HAD EVEN BEEN PREPARED TO SACRIFICE OTHERS IN A VAIN
BID TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN, SAID THE JUDGE.
‘HAVING SEEN YOU IN THIS COURT I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT YOU ARE A COMPLETELY DEVIOUS, GREEDY AND UTTERLY UNSCRUPULOUS
MAN,’ SAID THE JUDGE
HE TOLD WILLIAMSON THAT HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A COURIER AND
‘MINDER’ FOR DYE.
HE WAS THE PERSON WHO HAD PUT DYE’S WISHES INTO
EFFECT AND WAS A ‘SIGNIFICANT COG IN THE MACHINE.
‘
DAVIES HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE 660,000
DOLLARS WORTH OF HEROIN TO AMERICA, MILLARD HAD BEEN CAUGHT TRYING TO
SMUGGLE 440,000 DOLLARS WORTH OF THE DRUG AND MURPHY 220,000
DOLLARS WORTH.
ELLIS, WHO HAD PLEADED GUILTY TO HIS PART IN THE CONSPIRACY, WAS
GIVEN A ‘REDUCED’ SETENCE OF SEVEN YEARS BY THE JUDGE HAVING
ADMITTED HIS ROLE AS A COURIER.
ENDS
CENTRAL NEWS
PRESS ROOM
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD BAILEY
LONDON EC4
24 NOV 86
01 236 0116
BACKGROUND
PAYMASTER ANTHONY HAVELOCK-HUDSON, 41 – WHOSE MOTHER LIVES IN
ANSTEY, HERTS – AWAITS SENTENCE IN NEW YORK AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO
DRUGS CONSPIRACY CHARGES.
HE WAS FLOWN OVER TO LONDON TO GIVE EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION.
HE TOLD THE JURY HE FIRST BECAME INVOLVED WITH DYE’S TEAM
AFTER MEETING FORMER SOUTHAMPTON HAIRDRESSER WOLFGANG CADOGAN IN THE
EARLY 80’S IN ANTIGUA.
OLD ETONIAN HAVELOCK-HUDSON, THE SON OF FORMER CHAIRMAN OF LLOYDS
SIR HENRY HAVELOCK-HUDSON, HELPED CADOGAN WITH HIS RESTAURANT
‘WOLFIES’ BEFORE MOVING TO FLORIDA WHERE HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE, AN
EX-MODEL.
HAVELOCK-HUDSON’S MOTHER, NOW LADY ELIZABETH HOUSSAN DU BOULAY WHO
IS MARRIED TO SIR ROGER HOUSSAN DU BOULAY A FORMER VICE MARSHALL OF
THE BRITISH DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
THE COUPLE THEN MOVED TO THE MILLIONAIRE’S SUBURB SCOTTSDALE,
IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
HE SAID CADOGAN CONTACTED HIM AGAIN IN PHOENIX AND ASKED HIM –
BECAUSE OF HIS CONTACTS AND STYLE – TO WORK FOR HIM DELIVERING MONEY
UNDER THE GUISE OF A BUSINESSMAN.
HAVELOCK-HUDSON CLAIMED IT WAS NOT UNTIL LATER THAT HE
REALIZED DRUGS WERE INVOLVED.
HE TOLD THE JURY HOW HE DELIVERED 85,000 U.
S.
DOLLARS TO A
CONTACT IN PAKISTAN AND HE SAID HE MET DYE WHEN HE DELIVERED CASH TO
HIM IN ENGLAND.
CADOGAN, 42, KNOWN AS ‘PETER THE WOLF’ IS NOW SERVING A 20
YEAR SENTENCE IN AMERICA FOR DRUG SMUGGLING.
HE MET DYE WHEN THEY WERE BOTH ON REMAND AT BRIXTON PRISON ON
MINOR MATTERS AND BECAME HIS MANAGER IN AMERICA.
HAVELOCK-HUDSON WAS ARRESTED IN PHOENIX WHEN HE ASSUMED
UNDERCOVER AGENTS WERE MEMBERS OF THE DRUG GANG WHO HAD ARRIVED TO
FILL THE GAP CREATED BY ARRESTS IN ENGLAND.
HE TOLD THEM OF TRIPS HE HAD MADE CARRYING CASH FROM THE SALE
OF HEROIN IN AMERICA AND OF TRIPS TO LONDON AND PAKISTAN AND HE WENT
ON TO PROVE IT BY SHOWING HIS PASSPORT.
INVITED TO THEIR ROOM FOR A DRINK, HE CONTINUED TO TALK UNTIL
HE DEVELOPED HICCOUGHS.
DECLINING THE OFFER OF WATER HE SAID BETWEEN
HICCOUGHS: ‘NO I’LL JUST USE YOUR BATHROOM IF I MAY AND WHEN I COME
BACK YOU CHAPS CAN GIVE ME A FRIGHT.
THAT WILL DO IT.
‘
WHEN HE RETURNED THE AMERICAN AGENTS AND BRITISH OFFICERS ALL
SHOWED HAVELOCK HUDSON THEIR IDENTITY CARDS.
THE HICCOUGHS WERE
IMMEDIATELY CURED.
ENDS.
