#273. Surrey Drug Baron Locked Up for 34 Years - Piers Ravenhill
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Piers Ravenhill is a former drug kingpin that was sentenced to 34 years in prison. From earning millions by dealing ecstasy and hash, Piers talks Operation Sculpture. An investigation that saw him charged 52 times and involved over 500 officers. From police corruption, murder and underworld conspiracy, Piers has seen it all!
This is the eventful life of Mr Piers Ravenhill
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| 0:00.0 | 26 charges on an indictment of 52 involving nine other people, maybe 50, 100 kilos of |
| 0:09.1 | . 500 kilos of . . . . it's a long operation, but you're literally printing money, |
| 0:16.0 | so burying money in containers in the ground. I was getting this person hold this |
| 0:21.1 | half a mill, double-barreled sawed off shotgun and I had a six hour P2 to 8, 9 mil. Someone |
| 0:28.7 | owed me 30 grand in Portsmouth, he'd owed it to me for weeks. I knocked on the door, |
| 0:33.6 | it was in a block of flats, he opened the door and I went, you're right? |
| 0:38.5 | On the phone, do you know, like you're chatting if you can hold on me? I feel like getting |
| 0:40.9 | tapped at it. I can hear a little, did it, or a noise or something. Operation sculpture, 48 raids. |
| 0:46.2 | They used over 500 officers from three police forces. And the next thing, I heard some noise. |
| 0:52.2 | Didn't think anything of it, and then I heard, |
| 0:54.7 | armed police, everyone, stay where you are, don't move. |
| 0:58.5 | And it just all went off. |
| 1:00.1 | I jumped out the van. |
| 1:01.6 | Me and Ben started running around the warehouse, |
| 1:04.7 | nowhere to go. |
| 1:07.0 | In crime, there is a language that everyone understands. |
| 1:13.5 | And it just happened to be that on that day. |
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