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Episode 27: The Merseyside mobster who built up a £300m cocaine and heroin empire
Nicola Tallant is up for two awards this year
He is one of Europe's most-notorious drug dealers, who flooded the UK and Ireland with cocaine and heroin until he was nabbed in 1996.
While behind bars, Liverpool mobster Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren, killed a fellow inmate and had an illicit affair with a female prison guard.
In this week’s Crime World podcast, journalist Peter Walsh details the rise and fall of the gang boss who was once named as Interpol’s 'Target One' and how he built up a £300m drugs empire.
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