Curtis Warren associate smuggled 'more cocaine than Escobar' into UK – Liverpool Echo Skip to main content Former drug smuggler Andrew Pritchard(Image: James Linsell Clark / SWNS) A Curtis Warren associate says he smuggled "more cocaine than Pablo Escobar" over the UK border. Andrew Pritchard, once known as "Britain's biggest drug smuggler", spent three decades at the centre of the international drug trade. Pritchard, 59, was once so powerful in the underworld he had an operation that would flood Europe with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of cocaine and cannabis. The law caught up with him in 2004 after what was the largest ever drug seizure in the UK at that time. He was arrested after a staggering £100m worth of cocaine was found outside Spitalfields market hidden in coconuts. He was acquitted after two trials but later jailed after being found driving with £1m worth of cocaine and for perverting the course of justice in his earlier trial.
Published: March 4, 2026 4:02 pm
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