Ralph Riegel

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552 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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The Indo Daily · 'The Milkman': How an Irish 'gentleman gangster' built a global drugs empire – and how it all came crashing down · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

He didn't back down. matched

He was very straight. matched

And I think it won him a lot of respect within the criminal underworld for the courage that he showed. matched

But it was really his intelligence. matched

It was the way he built networks. matched

It was the way he made contacts. matched

And above all, it was the way he covered his tracks. matched

Because in latter years, when Wright was being investigated, he was very proud of saying, I'm a non entity. matched

He paid for things in cash. matched

He left no paper trail. matched

While he did lead a relatively lavish lifestyle, he did his very best to stay off the radar for the authorities. matched

And I suppose one of matched

of the great ironies, Kevin, is the fact that it was his other passion, which is horse racing, which had first put him on the radar for the authorities. matched

And when this individual was tracked by the mobile phone found on the C-Mist, it was the fact that Wright was already known for his connections with dubious practices within the horse racing world that really sparked Operation Extend, which brought down his smuggling network. matched

The places he would have lived in London would have been Kilburn and Crittlewood, like the famous Irish communities within London. matched

We're talking about the kind of the very late fifties into the sixties when you would have had a building boom, there would have been money to be made in England. matched

But it was very much the period as well where, you know, we all remember the famous signs or infamous signs in in some London guest houses. matched

No blacks, no dogs, no. matched

No Irish. matched

So it was very much that era as well. matched

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