Ex-Career Criminal on Drug Trafficking, Black Market Smuggling and Helping Prisoners Find Work

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @OnlyMeFromOverTheSea
    @OnlyMeFromOverTheSea Місяць тому +86

    He turned his life round, now he's helping others. Good on him.

  • @michaelduckett7688
    @michaelduckett7688 Місяць тому +61

    Had the pleasure of working with John. We have employed lads from his post prison programme through inside connections.

  • @AngieJames4172
    @AngieJames4172 Місяць тому +17

    Happy he has turned his life around and done well and is helping others in the system. Well done.

  • @lukepatterson5367
    @lukepatterson5367 Місяць тому +36

    Seems like a sound guy just a product of his environments and eventually turned his life round well played

    • @WJLMAROON
      @WJLMAROON Місяць тому +5

      Really struck me when he talked about how he’d always expected to end up in prison. To him the money was likely the bonus to a predetermined outcome. Glad hes trying to help other people because realistically prisoners need help so they don’t reoffend. If you turf them out with nothing of course they will commit crime.

  • @PaulHolman-sh5ts
    @PaulHolman-sh5ts Місяць тому +5

    Great lad John .. used to go the game with him back in the day .. the lap dancing bar was great 🤣🤣🤣 .. great to see him looking well out and about and putting his energy into his project which has really taken off and helping a lot of people who are getting out of jail into full time employment and training for trades

  • @Here4theComments
    @Here4theComments Місяць тому +10

    Keep doing them series - very insightful and educational.

  • @ImogenSimmons-ow4ej
    @ImogenSimmons-ow4ej Місяць тому +28

    I've been following your channel for ages, keep it up!

  • @tomellis-fu3ss
    @tomellis-fu3ss Місяць тому +10

    What a great story, fair play to him 🤝

  • @billie-jeanuk5576
    @billie-jeanuk5576 Місяць тому +13

    Wow that was fascinating, I could listen to him all day! Very inspiring

  • @garyreid4026
    @garyreid4026 Місяць тому +1

    Great video. Really good and interesting story. 👍🏻

  • @scottmcnaughton539
    @scottmcnaughton539 Місяць тому +2

    Fair play to this guy, its very easy to be stuck in the cycle that he was in, but he's not just changed his life, nor those of those who have been inside, but the families of those who have been inside. How many young kids now have their parent in their lives showing the power of honest work. It shows that everyone can change, provided they are given an opportunity to do so. Yes not everyone will succeed first go, but most people will.
    Hopefully politicians around the world start to develop a mindset that rehabilitation results in a more positive society than just pure punishment.
    And yes of course there are exceptions to this, but I bet they are a minority on the grander scale.

  • @MrHennerz
    @MrHennerz 25 днів тому

    A product of your environment
    Put this man in a life starting again as a child in a different environment and he doesn’t end up in crime and 100% still succeeds.

  • @desmondbroad1305
    @desmondbroad1305 19 днів тому

    Wow that was brilliant very inspirational 😍

  • @dicky3340
    @dicky3340 Місяць тому +36

    Subtitles on this is boss 😂

  • @rutherglenbluebell5
    @rutherglenbluebell5 Місяць тому +1

    Juice bomb John is a legend !!

  • @billkingston4402
    @billkingston4402 Місяць тому +7

    Bloody Sundays, thought it said struggling on £3 mill a week

  • @adamkoz6358
    @adamkoz6358 28 днів тому

    Great story fair play ❤

  • @wacax356
    @wacax356 Місяць тому +4

    John is a top top lad!

  • @ioScala
    @ioScala Місяць тому

    Good interview, inspiring guy.

  • @allankennedystyle
    @allankennedystyle Місяць тому

    impressive man and story

  • @scottiedog4236
    @scottiedog4236 Місяць тому

    Helping others wow .. Massive credit due

  • @SeanBriggs-op8px
    @SeanBriggs-op8px 19 днів тому

    Really inspirational

  • @waynewatson9893
    @waynewatson9893 Місяць тому

    Good to hear this

  • @judegreen5715
    @judegreen5715 Місяць тому

    Fair play to this man

  • @TrPortg
    @TrPortg Місяць тому +2

    He done his time Hopefully turned his life around..seems that way..well done son..well narrated storytop villains in the pool...when people were thinking about it they done it!

  • @markherd3116
    @markherd3116 Місяць тому +1

    Fair shout to the lad. Could have gone many bad ways. Now sorting shit out.

  • @jsss3604
    @jsss3604 День тому

    Leah Betts, the girl he mentioned who died, her dad was ex bobby so they came down really hard on the rave scene!

  • @davereddock6558
    @davereddock6558 Місяць тому +2

    Know his brother Frank, sadly we were both on gear. Last seen Frank in Walton in 2000/01.

  • @Peter.temps1
    @Peter.temps1 Місяць тому

    Good on him. Seems like a decent guy.

  • @soulbrother61
    @soulbrother61 Місяць тому

    Decent fella & i hope he stays straight,

  • @matthewimhardbrucelee6995
    @matthewimhardbrucelee6995 Місяць тому +104

    One minute he said he only sold weed as the coke carried to big a sentence then proceeds to say how he served time for selling coke 😂😂

    • @Mrfkdup
      @Mrfkdup Місяць тому +17

      When shipments come in they arrive with things that were not ordered by your firm , guns coke , heroin meth the lot 🥴

    • @Chris-lr2qb
      @Chris-lr2qb Місяць тому +3

      Editing

    • @MrChips91100
      @MrChips91100 Місяць тому +3

      I think he means ‘selling’ as in, comparative to proper importers he was fairly low level on C.

    • @WJLMAROON
      @WJLMAROON Місяць тому +2

      He says at the end of his first sentence he was angry as he got hit with a 14 mil fine and his businesses and properties were impounded which likely caused his family problems. He was desperate to get it back and as quickly as possible. And so greed got him, as it does everyone in the end.

    • @EarthEart
      @EarthEart Місяць тому

      Coke suckers😂

  • @SosaBlack00
    @SosaBlack00 15 днів тому

    Even tho I don’t know him he seems proper 💯

  • @sullykhan7237
    @sullykhan7237 Місяць тому +1

    Well done lad

  • @gaynor7947
    @gaynor7947 Місяць тому +2

    It's shocking! no one deserves to be homeless. So wrong 😢

  • @BarryGibson-e6x
    @BarryGibson-e6x 23 дні тому

    Spent many a night in quadrant park,seen everything from stabbings and gang warfare, but it was a cracking night when your pilled up an raving

  • @JoanneAnderson-tn2jf
    @JoanneAnderson-tn2jf Місяць тому

    Lovely been there man worn the t-shirt we need more ❤😊

  • @tommills7025
    @tommills7025 Місяць тому +1

    Mr Gillett is still very well off with his rolls Royce😊

  • @jamiewinfield8179
    @jamiewinfield8179 Місяць тому

    Well said lad

  • @jasonthomas4973
    @jasonthomas4973 Місяць тому +1

    Need to do more bench brother 😅

  • @kaizenmckenzie4782
    @kaizenmckenzie4782 Місяць тому +5

    We need a movie of this guy

  • @Assorted-Moose-Nonsense
    @Assorted-Moose-Nonsense Місяць тому

    "He got let off scot free."
    Ayyooo what a pun. 😂

  • @mattmcauliffe7126
    @mattmcauliffe7126 Місяць тому +2

    Legend.

  • @jonwalton4286
    @jonwalton4286 5 днів тому

    Yes John it’s ya old pad mate walshy!! Look very Weil brother keep it up

  • @kevinglover952
    @kevinglover952 Місяць тому +23

    Wondered what Duncan bannatyne did after dragons den

    • @noname-qb7ir
      @noname-qb7ir Місяць тому

      Lol

    • @cjparsons6748
      @cjparsons6748 Місяць тому

      Duncan’s Scottish?

    • @kevinglover952
      @kevinglover952 Місяць тому

      For comic effect I overlooked that,it’s not actually Duncan bannatyne you know?

    • @Papion.777
      @Papion.777 Місяць тому

      Good 1 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @karljones5480
    @karljones5480 Місяць тому +3

    What’s there app called ??

  • @MichaelMaye-ux6vk
    @MichaelMaye-ux6vk Місяць тому +3

    smart guy and an asset to society.

  • @eddunne4190
    @eddunne4190 18 днів тому

    The qud what a place I only ever went once OMG

  • @friederichnietzsch
    @friederichnietzsch Місяць тому

    Crazy thing about these stories, and crimes, and events, similar things are happening right now and someone will be sat on another episode of 'Minutes With' in 5, 7, or 10 years, to share a similar story.

  • @AJ-Themes-for-Great-Cities
    @AJ-Themes-for-Great-Cities Місяць тому +2

    Cracking story…

  • @Matt-wr9cc
    @Matt-wr9cc Місяць тому

    Genuine fella top interview

  • @andyzillla4133
    @andyzillla4133 18 днів тому

    There are some BS crimes that people deserve a second chance. Fair play.

  • @stephenjones529
    @stephenjones529 Місяць тому +4

    Seems a decent fella

  • @robynmeyer7796
    @robynmeyer7796 Місяць тому

    Life is a journey… sometimes it really is a mission, but looking back I wouldn’t have it any other way.
    When I Look In The Mirror:
    When I look in the mirror what do I see?
    Someone my mother wanted me to be?
    Someone my father, partner, brother…wants me to be?
    Or is it the person I Want Me to See?
    When I look in the mirror I wink and smile
    Life’s been a journey - every mile
    Sometimes I laughed and sometimes I cried
    There were even times when I nearly died.
    When I look in the mirror what do I see?
    The person I Want Me to Be!
    Every mistake was a lesson…but I blossomed and grew…the person in the mirror is the one person whom I truely understand and trust…I’m a good lady…
    - and who cares what the rest of the world thinks.
    Be yourself!

  • @bradleytobylee4945
    @bradleytobylee4945 Місяць тому

    “Obviously I started with speed” yeah very obvious mate, like what else you gonna do hey?

  • @fridgeways2300
    @fridgeways2300 Місяць тому

    I enjoy all of these, but is that the same composer as the Minecraft music?

  • @owentolworthy8465
    @owentolworthy8465 Місяць тому +7

    True gent. Dont make them like him anymore

  • @lorents8176
    @lorents8176 Місяць тому

    fellas a unit

  • @Bptl1234
    @Bptl1234 Місяць тому +1

    Watch out, watch out, there's TOUTS about 👀.

  • @pauly44loveyou
    @pauly44loveyou Місяць тому

    Dave Chisnell the darts player ain’t it?

  • @John_Wood_
    @John_Wood_ Місяць тому +1

    Eyes bulging out of his head.

  • @Rockyboy84
    @Rockyboy84 Місяць тому

    This bloke is a ringer for Patrick Bet-David if u change the hair and accent

  • @thaimanclark
    @thaimanclark Місяць тому

    4.5 years in Canada 100 grams pure Thai heroin 1979, was 29.

    • @thaimanclark
      @thaimanclark 11 днів тому

      74 and living in Thailand near the Golden Triangle.

  • @sjukbasketball8498
    @sjukbasketball8498 Місяць тому

    Great example of why mitigation shouldn’t ba allowed. Gnip should be deported as well

  • @jordanmossman5614
    @jordanmossman5614 11 днів тому

    Seems like a sound fella

  • @fsociety.dat101
    @fsociety.dat101 Місяць тому +4

    Seems like crime does pay. This guy lived the life, spent a few years in prison and went right back to normal.
    Wish I was smart enough to be a criminal and make some real money. Instead of earning peanuts in retail.

    • @carltonbreezy
      @carltonbreezy Місяць тому

      Exactly. He's sorry he got caught so reinvented himself as a good person.

    • @mrboonie620
      @mrboonie620 Місяць тому +1

      Defo pays hes sitting there with a platinum day date on

  • @lucabrasi3964
    @lucabrasi3964 Місяць тому +2

    3 million a week and what's he got to show for itv

    • @Gabe-t6j
      @Gabe-t6j 17 днів тому

      Have you seen what’s on his wrist 😅

  • @alfie8600
    @alfie8600 26 днів тому

    What’s his name

  • @joeymcloughlin6123
    @joeymcloughlin6123 Місяць тому

    Round vauxhy it is fuckin caked in doe 🤣😂 them numbers he ain’t messin

  • @loveMovementJ
    @loveMovementJ Місяць тому +1

    Diddly never came this early 😍

  • @cp88p43
    @cp88p43 Місяць тому

    That's bully tactics by the police. They new u had a weak point. And give ur self up.

  • @max-nm6qx
    @max-nm6qx Місяць тому +1

    "FROM GANGS TO GOD "BY RON HALVERSON POWERFUL TRUE STORY FROM THE BRONX CONEY ISLAND ENJOY UNMISSABLE WATCH GOD IS LOVE FOREVER ❤

  • @jotttn
    @jotttn Місяць тому

    CAB were hot to trot from 98 >

  • @onvibe1811
    @onvibe1811 Місяць тому

    Is he still on one? 👁👁

  • @stoneralien5163
    @stoneralien5163 Місяць тому +3

    Sam walkers dad

    • @ds.3577
      @ds.3577 Місяць тому +2

      Actually?

  • @Alexibawendi
    @Alexibawendi Місяць тому +12

    From $10K to $25k that's the minimum range of profit return every week I think it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family

    • @stanleymaxon
      @stanleymaxon Місяць тому

      Damn that's huge, how do you make that much weekly? I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??

    • @stanleymaxon
      @stanleymaxon Місяць тому

      That's great!!. I don't know anything about investing and I intend to start. What are your strategies?

    • @MarlinReese
      @MarlinReese Місяць тому

      Can I also do it??? My life is facing lots of challenges lately.

    • @NickAnthony322
      @NickAnthony322 Місяць тому

      Wow! Kind of in shock you mentioned expert, Jenifer Spencer. What a coincidence

    • @AnthonyMcgee-xr7tu
      @AnthonyMcgee-xr7tu Місяць тому

      You don't have to be stunned, she's one of the finest portfolio managers in the field, She's widely recognized.

  • @TheBear657
    @TheBear657 Місяць тому

    Geezer

  • @madmaori9199
    @madmaori9199 Місяць тому +6

    What aload of waffle... everyone I know has a past worse than this.. but talking about making it sound cool and doing time fuck that the trick behind it is not getting caught... drugs and dealing is a mugs game...

  • @RyanKing-h1k
    @RyanKing-h1k Місяць тому +1

    First 🇬🇧

  • @sjsa7160
    @sjsa7160 Місяць тому +1

    No diddy

    • @chunky9791
      @chunky9791 Місяць тому +1

      "The UK Diddler" mate.

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 Місяць тому

      ​@@chunky9791what is a Diddy, or a diddler? Never heard that expression. Someone in the comments also said a similar thing.

    • @FGinoz
      @FGinoz Місяць тому +1

      @@gutz323 P Diddy, music artist/producer accused of dozens of sexual assaults spanning over decades

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 Місяць тому

      @@FGinoz OK mate! I get what ya mean now. Just never heard the saying "a didler!"

    • @FGinoz
      @FGinoz Місяць тому +1

      @@gutz323 no worries

  • @neilcolwell3107
    @neilcolwell3107 Місяць тому +3

    Come on the Belfast Linfield FC ⚽️👑🇬🇧☘️✋🏼

  • @wanhunglo7234
    @wanhunglo7234 Місяць тому +2

    No one was selling weed int 80s

    • @Peter-ix1ym
      @Peter-ix1ym Місяць тому +3

      They were in 87

    • @t3zzy-rq6mj
      @t3zzy-rq6mj Місяць тому +5

      Weed was in the cavern club in liverpool in the 60s

    • @DavidMonk-t6j
      @DavidMonk-t6j Місяць тому +2

      Weeds been around for time 👌🏻

    • @wanhunglo7234
      @wanhunglo7234 Місяць тому

      It's been around for time but most people smoked hash in the 80s as weed was full of seeds n crap people weren't knocking out tons a week n that there wasn't that big demand for it weed only got big in early naughties

    • @vitocorleone6023
      @vitocorleone6023 Місяць тому +1

      @wanhunglo7234 No i remember weed in the late 70s around toxteth dingle chinatown wavetree, weed was big already round there all the young lads were onit i remember the grafton being fogged out in the early 80s because everyone in there was smoking it

  • @forshfam
    @forshfam Місяць тому +3

    Still looks wired now

  • @chrispandis9221
    @chrispandis9221 Місяць тому

    LADbible trying to stay relevant copying Soft White Underbelly

  • @MegaJasperdog
    @MegaJasperdog 20 днів тому

    Have a day off will you lad

  • @gregdudds5242
    @gregdudds5242 Місяць тому

    Gx

  • @neilrafferty2097
    @neilrafferty2097 Місяць тому +1

    Sorry, don't want to know about these bastards.

  • @RoblovesRebecca-o6u
    @RoblovesRebecca-o6u 29 днів тому

    Fkn inspiration mate .

  • @GedT-q5z
    @GedT-q5z Місяць тому

    What’s this guys instagram ?.

    • @PaulHolman-sh5ts
      @PaulHolman-sh5ts Місяць тому

      I don’t think he has instagram but look for inside connections that’s his business