Famous director eyes up making Curtis Warren: The Movie
The drugs baron denies hiding away millions during his criminal career
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Jailed drugs baron Curtis Warren
Notorious Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren could become the subject of a new film by Lock Stock director Guy Ritchie. The film-maker is understood to have asked Warren s legal team about documenting his killing of a fellow jailbird, reports The Mirror.
Toxteth -born career criminal Warren built one of the world s biggest drug rings and kicked a Turkish killer to death while inside for smuggling. The drugs baron, now aged 58, is currently bidding for his freedom.
Huge nationwide operation masterminded by Alan and John Tobin of Liverpool
The brothers were backed up by former martial arts star Robbie Broughton
Anthony and Leon Cullen and Jamie Oldroyd s firm were among their customers
The Tobins ordered the transport of a stash of drugs from Kent to Warrington
But police intercepted the van, carrying 186kg of up to 90 per cent pure cocaine
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Cage fighter was the muscle for gang whose cocaine empire supplied dealers in North Wales
Ex UFC star Rob Broughton, nicknamed The Bear worked as the enforcer for the Tobin brothers
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A former MMA cage fighter nicknamed The Bear was the muscle for a drug empire that served North Wales before it was busted when police seized £20m of cocaine on the motorway.
UFC cage fighter The Bear was enforcer for Brit cartel s £20m cocaine empire
Cage fighter Robbie The Bear Broughton, who enforced debts and collected payments for notorious gang leaders, has been sentenced to eight years in prison at Liverpool Crown Court
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Robbie Broughton, 38, was jailed for eight and a half years for conspiracy to supply cocaine. (Image: Liverpool Echo)
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