Jack Lawrence

Well, he would find that answer in the local library.

David formed a friendship with this group of former safecrackers, guys that were all loyal to each other, always looking out for one another and he felt drawn to their world.

They had a need and David decided he could fill it.

So he leaves his job at the City Cinema and decided that he was going to have a crack at importing the drugs that these retired safecrackers were after.

One of them gives him a loan for a few thousand dollars and David sets off for India on the hunt for some hashish.

His initial plan was to import a big piece of machinery which had weights in it.

Then they would be removed and replaced with the drugs and thus weighing the same on its return.

Good plan on the outset, but David soon found out that he would have to pay an extraordinary amount in duty just to get it into the country.

So that was off the table.

It would be a chance meeting, however, with a man at the money exchange, which would see him pull off one of the worst attempts at a drug importation you can think of, as he's given six kilos of hash and then sets about trying to hide it in an old 1950s radio, jumping back on a plane and heading straight to Sydney.

And you'd just come back from India?

Talk about close call.

But this didn't deter David from his ambitions of drug importation.

No, he just needed to get better at it.

David was so involved and obsessed by the process of smuggling drugs that even when he got to the stage of having couriers and putting them through training, he was always close by.

So you would go with, like, trainee, as it were, couriers to make sure that they were OK?

So as I said at the start of this episode, David McMillan is not a man you would look at and think, well, there's a hardened criminal.

I mean, of course, he's now 67 years old and a very slightly built man.

But even in his more, shall we say, sprightly years, he had more of a look of a man that you might meet at the bank about a home loan.

not someone you'd go to to get your hands on 10 kilos of Colombia's finest.