The kingpin at the head of a huge international cocaine trafficking conspiracy failed in a bid to serve his time in cushier conditions.
Mehmet Baybasin was at the top of an enormous drugs trafficking gang based in Liverpool and London responsible for smuggling huge quantities of Class A drugs from South America to the UK. Baybasin has spent years trying to fight his designation as a Category A prisoner, meaning he has been deemed a threat to the public or national security should he escape.
Baybasin made an application to the High Court to demand a judicial review into the decision of prison authorities to refuse an oral hearing about his categorisation in December last year.
