Heres the reason he climbed the mast to escape

I do hope the lads in black did not try to make the boat rock to persuade him to come down. I can't see anyone jumping voluntarily off the top of a mast.
 
I hope that any other dealers and traffickers who bring misery, criminality and death into the country also take the honourable way out.
It may be the first honourable thing they ever do.
 
sarabande said:
I do hope the lads in black did not try to make the boat rock to persuade him to come down. I can't see anyone jumping voluntarily off the top of a mast.
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Anyone dealing in that amount of drugs deserves all that the fates dish out to them, aided or otherwise by the boys in black. The murder and mayhem involved in just producing the drugs is almost unbelievable and that's before we get to the damage caused to the end users.
 
So, as expected a complete vindication and huge Bravo Zulu for the brutal fascist monster killers in black...

And a smaller BZ to the scrote for doing the decent thing and saving us so much time and trouble wasting good porridge on him.
 
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I believe that plod base the value of a drugs haul on the maximum street price (obtained from Parkers Guide To Recreational Substances) in order, as Ken says, to look good in the eyes of their overlords and to impress the media. The actual value of the haul is probably less than a quarter of that stated.
 
A quick internet search suggests £50/g in UK. You need £100/g to get the figures quoted but the stuff will be pretty pure as found and will be cut with maybe to two to four times the weight of filler. So I don't see the £12.4M as being anywhere near unreasonable for 124Kg - or how a quarter of that figure could possibly be correct unless my maths is wrong of course!. I agree that we tend to expect plod to vastly over estimate value to sound good but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
 
The chap made a basic error IMHO. He should have turned up in a Bavaria and told the customs chap he was carrying plenty of supplies to make an emergency keel repair if needed...

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Blackfeather said:
I wonder where he thought he was going when he climbed up the mast. It's like something out of Tom and Jerry.
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What is the source of the information that the mast climb was intended to be an escape?

Escape makes no sense so IMV most likely someone's got the wrong end of the stick. Even if he planned to climb the mast a short way to jump onto the quay and then outrun customs and bystanders he can't possibly have expected to evade capture for long on a small island. If he had "escaped" he'd be on the run from the Police & the people who owned the drugs.

So unless he was taking some of the product he was delivering there is no way that climbing the mast was intended to be an escape in the normal sense of the word, but we can all think of countless scenarios that might make sense: Suicide? He was up there doing repairs during the search and fell? He had something concealed in the mast he wanted to dump over the side? Maybe he wanted his last hours of freedom to be calmly taking in the harbour view until they got a cherry-picker to fetch him down? I'm sure we can all come up with dozens that are more or less plausible.
 
MASH said:
A quick internet search suggests £50/g in UK. You need £100/g to get the figures quoted but the stuff will be pretty pure as found and will be cut with maybe to two to four times the weight of filler. So I don't see the £12.4M as being anywhere near unreasonable for 124Kg - or how a quarter of that figure could possibly be correct unless my maths is wrong of course!. I agree that we tend to expect plod to vastly over estimate value to sound good but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
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Like all things, drugs are cheaper when you buy them wholesale. If you by a kilo of the stuff it's not going to cost you £50 a gram.

I think the police habit of declaring the value based on the street price is fair enough since more people are going to be able to relate to just how much marching powder these guys are trying to smuggle in.
 
From PBO:
The man died in Treliske Hospital in Truro, Cornwall. The cause of his death has not been established but information provided by Border Force suggested he fell or jumped from the boat's mast.
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Strange. What have the Coroner and Pathologist been doing then?
 
toad_oftoadhall said:
What is the source of the information that the mast climb was intended to be an escape?

Escape makes no sense so IMV most likely someone's got the wrong end of the stick. Even if he planned to climb the mast a short way to jump onto the quay and then outrun customs and bystanders he can't possibly have expected to evade capture for long on a small island. If he had "escaped" he'd be on the run from the Police & the people who owned the drugs.

So unless he was taking some of the product he was delivering there is no way that climbing the mast was intended to be an escape in the normal sense of the word, but we can all think of countless scenarios that might make sense: Suicide? He was up there doing repairs during the search and fell? He had something concealed in the mast he wanted to dump over the side? Maybe he wanted his last hours of freedom to be calmly taking in the harbour view until they got a cherry-picker to fetch him down? I'm sure we can all come up with dozens that are more or less plausible.
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Maybe he was snorting some of his own product and thought he was captain Jack Sparrow and could swing ashore from the spreaders ? Who knows ,one less dealer to pollute our streets and poison our kids , i wont miss him !
 
Nice looking boat that will be impounded and sold.

Unfortunately the fine gentlemen of the Revenue and Customs Service delight in trashing the interior of the boats that they grab, on the pretext of looking for more, thereby reducing the resale value. It's just taxpayers money, after all.
 
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