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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Now, it's not a real name that was also involved in directing these guys.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
On the phones.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
On the phones, telling them where to be.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Like on January the 9th,
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
There's coordinates of the MV Royal has been sent to one of the landing crews, one of their phones.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So, I mean, what happened, I suppose this week we had one of those guys, his sentence hearing was on Monday this week, whereas the others, all the sentence hearing, all the mitigation was heard just before Christmas in December.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So he was the last one to go.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So we got to hear a bit about them as well.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So Gary Monks, he's 41-year-old.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
He's a former British Army soldier.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
He served eight years in the British Army, honorable discharge, and then went on to become a military contractor.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So he was working in Iraq and Afghanistan for quite some time, like from 2008 to 2020 or something like that.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So he had a long career there and obviously earning decent money.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
He had been recruited with a promise of €30,000 for doing this, and it was going to be possibly...
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
you know, there might be more in it if this went well.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
And it kind of pushed him on this kind of, I suppose, not a slow descent, but it pushed him on a descent where he was abusing drink and drugs as well.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
From what, 2020 onwards?
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Yeah, well, he wasn't able to go back to work because it was heard in court that he didn't really realise that he was suffering from this.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
I mean, it was actually referred to that he's known in the prison as the man who screams in his sleep at night.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So I don't think he's faking it if he's kind of already known in the prison system as suffering from severe PTSD