A drugs baron who imported up to £1bn of cocaine to the UK died seven years into his 25-year sentence.
Johnny Gerrard Kock, 75, was found dead in his cell at HMP Berwyn in Wales on August 16, 2021. Kock was in prison serving a 25-year sentence after he used a fake pond-liner business to import up to 6,000kg of cocaine - potentially worth up to a billion pounds at street level - from the continent to an Old Swan industrial site.
Kock, a Dutch native living in a semi-detached house in Willow Road, Wavertree, at the time of his arrest, escaped prosecution in both 1992 and in 1994. Kock did not come to the attention of police again until his cocaine operation was busted in 2013, and later made admissions to being involved in cannabis trafficking.
