I was selling up to 5 or 10k there's a
carrot week on a couple of occasions
people who tried to kill me ended up
spending nine years in prison in Ecuador
I've had a human face throughout my time
trafficking one of them is posh Peter my
name is Peter Tristan and I'm an ex
international cocaine trafficker the
first international import ever did was
from Holland of 2000 pills
brought them in just before Christmas
and made everyone's Christmas really
good and yearsI and it was actually
quite a few years after I did that that
I ever go into the cocaine trafficking
because I did have in prison so that
kind of stole things
I'd just be mad to visit a friend to
drop off some coke
I had a briefcase in the front of the
van care in which there were I think
that maybe a year a thousand pills you
know a couple of ounces of coke scales
and all sort of sawed-off shotgun in the
back of the vent and a marked police car
came up behind me and and pulled me over
basically very quickly it became
obviously it wasn't the museum traffic
so they immediately went into the front
van they pulled out the briefcase like
oh look what we found
your whole world just stops reframe you
know you'll go in one place and that's
behind the walls of Bosma prison
during my time in prison I talked to the
end I decided that you know should I
decide to get back into trafficking
drugs the it would be cocaine because it
was low volume and high value having
been released didn't do anything for
several months then got tempted made a
phone call and said look can you try and
find me a source who would be able to
give us the hook-up in South America for
the cocaine so sat round in this kitchen
in London talking to the Colombian and
he says to me you know we're bringing
the cocaine in and whip we're bringing
in impregnated in rubber and then they
were putting it into the ground sheets
of tents as if it was part of the ground
shake so absolutely Faraday's how long's
like that wow that is really cool
I'd like us out of this so the first one
collected it from Quito gave it back to
England we extracted it sold it made
about 100 120 thousand each
yeah it was good really good feeling it
together by the end when I was living in
a manor house and driving Mercedes and
just being to flash basically
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on a couple of occasions people tried to
kill me I had a gun pulled on me once in
London a Derringer two-shot pistol in
Chyzyk because obviously by that point I
was selling and up to five or ten kilos
of coke weak volumes and money involved
by that point where you know well where
someone's well killing me basically the
level of paranoia was insane you are
constantly certainly of that sort level
you know anyone around kilos of cocaine
and tons of Hashem you know stuff big
amounts that you know were kinda
critical maybe 10 years plus at least
ended up spending nine years in prison
in Ecuador
having been arrested in Quito in Ecuador
I tried to escape so they transfer me to
the fourth most dangerous prison in the
whole of South America which at that
time held 8,000 people was split between
two rival gangs completely getting
controlled the two gangs are at war with
each other hand guns explosives machine
guns in the prison four or five minutes
a week just absolutely insane
it became my sort of pastime coming up
with ways of escaping I employed some
people to dig a tunnel out of the prison
unfortunately it got discovered I was
also planning with members of the FARC
then we get an RV to eat
rocket-propelled grenade and blow the
blow the wall of the prison and get some
machine-gun covering fire on the
watchtowers
and then make our escape like that as
well or a helicopter lift but that was
too expensive
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by this point actually in Quito I'd more
or less ended up in charge of the wing
that I was living home because I have a
knack of organizing people and sorting
things that and I'd realized that no one
was really bringing any coke a good
cocaine into the prison obviously
there's a big opportunity and as you
know he's a wing full of foreigners
there that wanted to take the most drugs
they've got money so I think now I might
as well start running it wing was
normally quite busy in the evening you
know people running about cooking
getting a drugs doing drugs I had taken
a plate of food to a friend one
everyone's doors are open it's very
quiet you know you can feel something is
not quite right and it's just been this
this explosion right next to my head
here and one of this other gang to come
up behind me with a handgun shot over my
shoulder and right in front of me is
shot the guy in the face blowing the
back of his head out so he's dead
dived in my room slammed the door shut
to our long gun fight ensued a couple of
other gang gang members came out with
ourselves so did this lot so there was
about 10 or born site shooting and about
two or three on the other using one had
an Uzi mr. Lucey submachine gun a nine
Miller of light several nine millimeters
38 colt 45
I mean a lot of gunfire
we were transferred on mass from the old
prison in Guayaquil the really dangerous
one into this new prison with all high
security you know cameras everywhere we
went from having basically freedom to
the way of your wife yeah you know him
sell TVs to suddenly nothing there was a
light that came on at 6:00 p.m. I went
off at 10:00 p.m.
Harold completely incommunicado too much
disappeared so at that point I went get
me out
so the embassy we started the process to
get me back to Britain I remember
getting back to one's birth and be put
in a Cell ours is like wow this feels
like a hotel room to me
all these people are coming into the
prison you know I just London gonna
crying and moaning so bad it's terrible
the food's really bad if we only get
visit three times a week and there's a
site are you not at this fantastic they
police what I was insane I've never been
out of prison for that to coming out I
just felt you know that everybody knew I
was an ex-con like just come out of
prison I honestly felt like I had
convict tattooed across my forehead I
was diagnosed having post-traumatic
stress disorder it been impassable
environment is it almost like walls I
think that you can't get out of it's
just ring this I'm just still
readjusting really to be honest
it is a dangerous business to be most of
my friends the degree involved it's
probably 60 70 % dead there's very few
people that go through life as a cocaine
trafficker any sort of or any sort of
drug trafficker that haven't been to
prison or they're alive
every day I wake up and I'm just happy
to be alive just to be able to breathe
fresh air and open my eyes and know I'm
safe I'm very lucky to be alive I mean
there are still people others still want
to kill me now
that's life
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