Olympic star in £50 million drug gang

Thu Nov 26 2009 21:09:42

An Olympic judo star has been convicted of being part of a £50 million drug gang.

James Waithe, 47, who represented Barbados at the Olympics and England in the Commonwealth Games, was part of a gang who turned over around £1 million a week from cocaine sales.

Waithe owned a Bristol flat where police found a "cocaine factory", complete with drugs and guns.

Police were called to a reported burglary at Waithe's flat in Highridge Green and stumbled on a 10-tonne hydraulic press, white powder and cutting agents.

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