Colin 'Smigger' Smith, Britain's so-called Cocaine King with an estimated personal fortune of £200m, murdered in a gangland hit.
Colin 'Smigger' Smith, Britain's so-called Cocaine King with an estimated personal fortune of £200m, murdered in a gangland hit. Six months on, his assassin remains at large despite a massive police investigation. Only now, though, can the circumstances behind the murder of Britain's biggest cocaine baron be revealed. It is a vicious tale of duplicity, violence and retribution in the shadowy world of international drug dealing.But Smith's killing carries more profound implications, threatening a ferocious war between Britain's original drug syndicate, the so-called Liverpool mafia, and the largest Colombian cocaine suppliers to Europe, the Cali cartels. At stake, say underworld sources, is control of Britain's £2bn cocaine market. They revealed that Merseyside's crime gangs believe Colombian cartels ordered the hit on Smith over a missing consignment of the Class A narcotic worth £72m.Merseyside police are aware of at least one meeting in which the heads...