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

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  • Опубліковано 26 гру 2024

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  • @michaelduckett7688
    @michaelduckett7688 2 місяці тому +69

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

    • @justjacqueline2004
      @justjacqueline2004 2 місяці тому

      Same here in London.

    • @JamieWalker-pc6nd
      @JamieWalker-pc6nd 2 місяці тому

      Ahh that’s cute

    • @ryansmith7987
      @ryansmith7987 24 дні тому

      Has he always been a massive liar and wildly exaggerate his exploits or is that just for this interview?

  • @OnlyMeFromOverTheSea
    @OnlyMeFromOverTheSea 2 місяці тому +97

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

  • @user-cm8en8or1p
    @user-cm8en8or1p 27 днів тому +3

    Met John once and he was a great guy and a great laugh. He's doing great things for people now. Good on him.

  • @AngieJames4172
    @AngieJames4172 2 місяці тому +23

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

  • @christopherlockett2148
    @christopherlockett2148 13 днів тому +1

    Had a great experience with John today, very inspiring the way he has changed his life around and enabled many others to see a brighter future. Very inspiring and refreshing experience, to say the least. Look forward to working with you🙌

  • @lukepatterson5367
    @lukepatterson5367 2 місяці тому +40

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

    • @WJLMAROON
      @WJLMAROON 2 місяці тому +6

      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 2 місяці тому +7

    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 2 місяці тому +10

    Keep doing them series - very insightful and educational.

  • @ImogenSimmons-ow4ej
    @ImogenSimmons-ow4ej 2 місяці тому +29

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

  • @tomellis-fu3ss
    @tomellis-fu3ss 2 місяці тому +11

    What a great story, fair play to him 🤝

  • @scotthunt3860
    @scotthunt3860 Місяць тому

    Well done John for turning your life around. It takes a real man to look at himself in the mirror and take accountability and responsibility for his decisions and actions. You deserve all the happiness life brings you mate !

  • @scottmcnaughton539
    @scottmcnaughton539 2 місяці 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.

  • @Jay-333
    @Jay-333 14 днів тому

    Quadrant Park ❤💯👍🕊🕊If you no you no.. Top bloke for turning his life around 👏 👍

  • @garyreid4026
    @garyreid4026 2 місяці тому +1

    Great video. Really good and interesting story. 👍🏻

  • @MrHennerz
    @MrHennerz 2 місяці 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.

  • @adrienshaw9552
    @adrienshaw9552 21 день тому

    Immensely special individuals🙏🏼

  • @dicky3340
    @dicky3340 2 місяці тому +37

    Subtitles on this is boss 😂

  • @Peter.temps1
    @Peter.temps1 2 місяці тому +1

    Good on him. Seems like a decent guy.

  • @desmondbroad1305
    @desmondbroad1305 Місяць тому

    Wow that was brilliant very inspirational 😍

  • @rutherglenbluebell5
    @rutherglenbluebell5 2 місяці тому +1

    Juice bomb John is a legend !!

  • @kevinglover952
    @kevinglover952 2 місяці тому +24

    Wondered what Duncan bannatyne did after dragons den

    • @noname-qb7ir
      @noname-qb7ir 2 місяці тому

      Lol

    • @cjparsons6748
      @cjparsons6748 2 місяці тому

      Duncan’s Scottish?

    • @kevinglover952
      @kevinglover952 2 місяці тому

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

    • @Papion.777
      @Papion.777 2 місяці тому

      Good 1 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @billie-jeanuk5576
    @billie-jeanuk5576 2 місяці тому +13

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

  • @davereddock6558
    @davereddock6558 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @wacax356
    @wacax356 2 місяці тому +4

    John is a top top lad!

  • @billkingston4402
    @billkingston4402 2 місяці тому +7

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

  • @tommills7025
    @tommills7025 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @jsss3604
    @jsss3604 Місяць тому

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

  • @SosaBlack00
    @SosaBlack00 Місяць тому

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

  • @gaynor7947
    @gaynor7947 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @scottiedog4236
    @scottiedog4236 2 місяці тому

    Helping others wow .. Massive credit due

  • @adamkoz6358
    @adamkoz6358 2 місяці тому

    Great story fair play ❤

  • @soulbrother61
    @soulbrother61 2 місяці тому

    Decent fella & i hope he stays straight,

  • @markherd3116
    @markherd3116 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @judegreen5715
    @judegreen5715 2 місяці тому

    Fair play to this man

  • @ioScala
    @ioScala 2 місяці тому

    Good interview, inspiring guy.

  • @waynewatson9893
    @waynewatson9893 2 місяці тому

    Good to hear this

  • @JoanneAnderson-tn2jf
    @JoanneAnderson-tn2jf 2 місяці тому

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

  • @allankennedystyle
    @allankennedystyle 2 місяці тому

    impressive man and story

  • @Assorted-Moose-Nonsense
    @Assorted-Moose-Nonsense 2 місяці тому

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

  • @karljones5480
    @karljones5480 2 місяці тому +3

    What’s there app called ??

  • @SeanBriggs-op8px
    @SeanBriggs-op8px Місяць тому

    Really inspirational

  • @kaizenmckenzie4782
    @kaizenmckenzie4782 2 місяці тому +5

    We need a movie of this guy

  • @TrPortg
    @TrPortg 2 місяці 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!

  • @jasonthomas4973
    @jasonthomas4973 2 місяці тому +1

    Need to do more bench brother 😅

  • @BarryGibson-e6x
    @BarryGibson-e6x Місяць 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

  • @garethshaw5165
    @garethshaw5165 17 днів тому

    Made mistakes but turned his life around. Fair play to him.

  • @matthewimhardbrucelee6995
    @matthewimhardbrucelee6995 2 місяці тому +115

    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 2 місяці тому +18

      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 2 місяці тому +3

      Editing

    • @MrChips91100
      @MrChips91100 2 місяці тому +3

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

    • @WJLMAROON
      @WJLMAROON 2 місяці 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 2 місяці тому

      Coke suckers😂

  • @sullykhan7237
    @sullykhan7237 2 місяці тому +1

    Well done lad

  • @mattmcauliffe7126
    @mattmcauliffe7126 2 місяці тому +2

    Legend.

  • @andyzillla4133
    @andyzillla4133 Місяць тому

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

  • @pauly44loveyou
    @pauly44loveyou 2 місяці тому

    Dave Chisnell the darts player ain’t it?

  • @MichaelMaye-ux6vk
    @MichaelMaye-ux6vk 2 місяці тому +3

    smart guy and an asset to society.

  • @jamiewinfield8179
    @jamiewinfield8179 2 місяці тому

    Well said lad

  • @eddunne4190
    @eddunne4190 Місяць тому

    The qud what a place I only ever went once OMG

  • @stephenjones529
    @stephenjones529 2 місяці тому +4

    Seems a decent fella

  • @fridgeways2300
    @fridgeways2300 2 місяці тому

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

  • @bradleytobylee4945
    @bradleytobylee4945 2 місяці тому

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

  • @peteclarke5093
    @peteclarke5093 Місяць тому

    Proppa straight talking gent

  • @jonwalton4286
    @jonwalton4286 Місяць тому

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

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

    Cracking story…

  • @friederichnietzsch
    @friederichnietzsch 2 місяці 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.

  • @Brian64512
    @Brian64512 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @robynmeyer7796
    @robynmeyer7796 2 місяці 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!

  • @thaimanclark
    @thaimanclark 2 місяці тому

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

    • @thaimanclark
      @thaimanclark Місяць тому

      74 and living in Thailand near the Golden Triangle.

  • @owentolworthy8465
    @owentolworthy8465 2 місяці тому +7

    True gent. Dont make them like him anymore

  • @lucabrasi3964
    @lucabrasi3964 2 місяці тому +2

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

    • @Swagzezzz
      @Swagzezzz Місяць тому

      Have you seen what’s on his wrist 😅

  • @Rockyboy84
    @Rockyboy84 2 місяці тому

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

  • @jordanmossman5614
    @jordanmossman5614 Місяць тому

    Seems like a sound fella

  • @John_Wood_
    @John_Wood_ 2 місяці тому +2

    Eyes bulging out of his head.

    • @Chell-o4p
      @Chell-o4p 29 днів тому

      Gotta be still on it 😮

  • @lorents8176
    @lorents8176 2 місяці тому

    fellas a unit

  • @onvibe1811
    @onvibe1811 2 місяці тому

    Is he still on one? 👁👁

  • @alfie8600
    @alfie8600 2 місяці тому

    What’s his name

  • @sjukbasketball8498
    @sjukbasketball8498 2 місяці тому

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

  • @jotttn
    @jotttn 2 місяці тому

    CAB were hot to trot from 98 >

  • @joeymcloughlin6123
    @joeymcloughlin6123 2 місяці тому

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

  • @Alexibawendi
    @Alexibawendi 2 місяці 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 2 місяці 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 2 місяці тому

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

    • @MarlinReese
      @MarlinReese 2 місяці тому

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

    • @NickAnthony322
      @NickAnthony322 2 місяці тому

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

    • @AnthonyMcgee-xr7tu
      @AnthonyMcgee-xr7tu 2 місяці тому

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

  • @stoneralien5163
    @stoneralien5163 2 місяці тому +3

    Sam walkers dad

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

      Actually?

  • @madmaori9199
    @madmaori9199 2 місяці 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...

  • @cp88p43
    @cp88p43 2 місяці тому

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

  • @fsociety.dat101
    @fsociety.dat101 2 місяці 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 2 місяці тому

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

    • @mrboonie620
      @mrboonie620 2 місяці тому +1

      Defo pays hes sitting there with a platinum day date on

  • @TheBear657
    @TheBear657 2 місяці тому

    Geezer

  • @max-nm6qx
    @max-nm6qx 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @loveMovementJ
    @loveMovementJ 2 місяці тому +1

    Diddly never came this early 😍

  • @wanhunglo7234
    @wanhunglo7234 2 місяці тому +2

    No one was selling weed int 80s

    • @Peter-ix1ym
      @Peter-ix1ym 2 місяці тому +3

      They were in 87

    • @t3zzy-rq6mj
      @t3zzy-rq6mj 2 місяці тому +5

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

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

      Weeds been around for time 👌🏻

    • @wanhunglo7234
      @wanhunglo7234 2 місяці 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 2 місяці 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

  • @sjsa7160
    @sjsa7160 2 місяці тому +1

    No diddy

    • @chunky9791
      @chunky9791 2 місяці тому +1

      "The UK Diddler" mate.

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 2 місяці тому

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

    • @FGinoz
      @FGinoz 2 місяці тому +1

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

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 2 місяці тому

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

    • @FGinoz
      @FGinoz 2 місяці тому +1

      @@gutz323 no worries

  • @chrispandis9221
    @chrispandis9221 2 місяці тому +1

    LADbible trying to stay relevant copying Soft White Underbelly

  • @MegaJasperdog
    @MegaJasperdog Місяць тому

    Have a day off will you lad

  • @forshfam
    @forshfam 2 місяці тому +3

    Still looks wired now

  • @Matt-wr9cc
    @Matt-wr9cc 2 місяці тому

    Genuine fella top interview

  • @gregdudds5242
    @gregdudds5242 2 місяці тому

    Gx

  • @RyanKing-h1k
    @RyanKing-h1k 2 місяці тому +1

    First 🇬🇧

  • @neilcolwell3107
    @neilcolwell3107 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @neilrafferty2097
    @neilrafferty2097 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @GedT-q5z
    @GedT-q5z 2 місяці тому

    What’s this guys instagram ?.

    • @PaulHolman-sh5ts
      @PaulHolman-sh5ts 2 місяці тому

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