A notorious drugs baron with links to Manchester is due out in November - and will emerge to a very different underworld. Curtis Warren, 59, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1million of cannabis into Jersey and is now due for automatic release.
He can expect to be welcomed by offers to tell his life story on one side - and never-ending police surveillance on the other. He will also discover an underworld in turmoil due to the hacking of the Encrochat network.
Sources close to the Liverpool-born drug baron, whose operation included a number of Manchester-based criminals, claim that he has been inundated with letters and promises of a big money deal for screen adaptations of his life story.
