A British man who snorted cocaine off Pablo Escobar's grave and vowed 'never to return' to Colombia after getting in a brawl with local cartels has been put behind bars for drug dealing. Steven Semmens and four other cocaine conspirators were sentenced to more than 52 years between them in prison for their involvement in selling the Class A drug.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Semmens and the other defendants were connected with trafficking large quantities of cocaine into South Wales. Semmens was also previously filmed spilling cocaine on the gravestone of infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar while on a trip to South America in 2018.
The defendant said that he had carried out the act as part of a bet but he didn't think things would go as far as they did as his barrister told the court that Semmens' disrespectful actions had not gone down well with some Colombian criminals. Semmens and another defendant Shane White had planned to import kilos of cocaine to the UK from South America but the court heard that not a single gram successfully arrived and there was 'something almost comical about their ineptitude'.
