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

So you had a community that was struggling to establish itself, was struggling for recognition, and I suppose was struggling as well to make money within a society where money was suddenly quite apparent. matched

It was an affluent society. matched

And Wright had had dabbled in property, he dabbled in various different things. matched

But where he really started to make his money was in nefarious practices surrounding horse race. matched

And in particular, doping of horses, there was significant money to be made in the 60s and early 70s. matched

And that's where Wright first made his mark on the criminal underworld. matched

Yeah, it's it's one it's one of the the the things that has made him such a kind of an interesting character and why there's been so much written and spoken about him over the years. matched

He got the nickname The Milkman because he always delivered and that was his prol boast. matched

He was in a in a criminal underworld notorious for backstabbing and people effectively trying to pull fast ones on their colleagues. matched

He was pretty much a straight dealer. matched

If he had a deal with you, he would honor it. matched

If he had promised to deliver projects or had scans or whatever like that, he delivered. matched

So there was quite a lot of grudging respect shown to him, not just by Irish gangs in the UK, but also by the British gangs, because they knew he's a guy that if you dealt with, he was pretty much a man of his word. matched

So the milkman became very, very well known within the criminal underworld. matched

And he was also very careful. matched

He studiously matched

avoided violence where he could. matched

And he never got involved in any of the high profile disputes or showdowns that really put a person on the police radar. matched

He preferred to stay very much below the horizon. matched

He worked away very carefully. matched

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