Ex-Career Criminal on Drug Trafficking, Black Market Smuggling and Helping Prisoners Find Work

[@OnlyMeFromOverTheSea]

He turned his life round, now he's helping others. Good on him.

[@michaelduckett7688]

Had the pleasure of working with John. We have employed lads from his post prison programme through inside connections.

[@justjacqueline2004]

Same here in London.

[@JamieWalker-pc6nd]

Ahh that’s cute

[@ryansmith7987]

Has he always been a massive liar and wildly exaggerate his exploits or is that just for this interview?

[@Tailssonic1999x]

Load of spaffers

[@user-cm8en8or1p]

Met John once and he was a great guy and a great laugh. He's doing great things for people now. Good on him.

[@AngieJames4172]

Happy he has turned his life around and done well and is helping others in the system. Well done.

[@christopherlockett2148]

Had a great experience with John today, very inspiring the way he has changed his life around and enabled many others to see a brighter future. Very inspiring and refreshing experience, to say the least. Look forward to working with you🙌

[@PaulHolman-sh5ts]

Great lad John .. used to go the game with him back in the day .. the lap dancing bar was great 🤣🤣🤣 .. great to see him looking well out and about and putting his energy into his project which has really taken off and helping a lot of people who are getting out of jail into full time employment and training for trades

[@lukepatterson5367]

Seems like a sound guy just a product of his environments and eventually turned his life round well played

[@WJLMAROON]

Really struck me when he talked about how he’d always expected to end up in prison. To him the money was likely the bonus to a predetermined outcome. Glad hes trying to help other people because realistically prisoners need help so they don’t reoffend. If you turf them out with nothing of course they will commit crime.

[@Here4theComments]

Keep doing them series - very insightful and educational.

[@ImogenSimmons-ow4ej]

I've been following your channel for ages, keep it up!

[@scotthunt3860]

Well done John for turning your life around. It takes a real man to look at himself in the mirror and take accountability and responsibility for his decisions and actions. You deserve all the happiness life brings you mate !

[@tomellis-fu3ss]

What a great story, fair play to him 🤝

[@billie-jeanuk5576]

Wow that was fascinating, I could listen to him all day! Very inspiring

[@garyreid4026]

Great video. Really good and interesting story. 👍🏻

[@scottmcnaughton539]

Fair play to this guy, its very easy to be stuck in the cycle that he was in, but he's not just changed his life, nor those of those who have been inside, but the families of those who have been inside. How many young kids now have their parent in their lives showing the power of honest work. It shows that everyone can change, provided they are given an opportunity to do so. Yes not everyone will succeed first go, but most people will. Hopefully politicians around the world start to develop a mindset that rehabilitation results in a more positive society than just pure punishment. And yes of course there are exceptions to this, but I bet they are a minority on the grander scale.

[@MrHennerz]

A product of your environment Put this man in a life starting again as a child in a different environment and he doesn’t end up in crime and 100% still succeeds.

[@Jay-333]

Quadrant Park ❤💯👍🕊🕊If you no you no.. Top bloke for turning his life around 👏 👍

[@adrienshaw9552]

Immensely special individuals🙏🏼

[@desmondbroad1305]

Wow that was brilliant very inspirational 😍

[@dicky3340]

Subtitles on this is boss 😂

[@wacax356]

John is a top top lad!

[@rutherglenbluebell5]

Juice bomb John is a legend !!

[@waynewatson9893]

Good to hear this

[@Peter.temps1]

Good on him. Seems like a decent guy.

[@ioScala]

Good interview, inspiring guy.

[@scottiedog4236]

Helping others wow .. Massive credit due

[@billkingston4402]

Bloody Sundays, thought it said struggling on £3 mill a week

[@markherd3116]

Fair shout to the lad. Could have gone many bad ways. Now sorting shit out.

[@davereddock6558]

Know his brother Frank, sadly we were both on gear. Last seen Frank in Walton in 2000/01.

[@adamkoz6358]

Great story fair play ❤

[@TrPortg]

He done his time Hopefully turned his life around..seems that way..well done son..well narrated storytop villains in the pool...when people were thinking about it they done it!

[@Assorted-Moose-Nonsense]

"He got let off scot free." Ayyooo what a pun. 😂

[@jsss3604]

Leah Betts, the girl he mentioned who died, her dad was ex bobby so they came down really hard on the rave scene!

[@allankennedystyle]

impressive man and story

[@judegreen5715]

Fair play to this man

[@tommills7025]

Mr Gillett is still very well off with his rolls Royce😊

[@SeanBriggs-op8px]

Really inspirational

[@soulbrother61]

Decent fella & i hope he stays straight,

[@JoanneAnderson-tn2jf]

Lovely been there man worn the t-shirt we need more ❤😊

[@Neil-u4m]

Fair play 👍

[@SosaBlack00]

Even tho I don’t know him he seems proper 💯

[@sullykhan7237]

Well done lad

[@BarryGibson-e6x]

Spent many a night in quadrant park,seen everything from stabbings and gang warfare, but it was a cracking night when your pilled up an raving

[@gaynor7947]

It's shocking! no one deserves to be homeless. So wrong 😢

[@philiparmitage]

😊 nice profile picture

[@karljones5480]

What’s there app called ??

[@UnknownStrobes]

Inside Connections

[@peteclarke5093]

Proppa straight talking gent

[@jamiewinfield8179]

Well said lad

[@jasonthomas4973]

Need to do more bench brother 😅

[@kevinglover952]

Wondered what Duncan bannatyne did after dragons den

[@noname-qb7ir]

Lol

[@cjparsons6748]

Duncan’s Scottish?

[@kevinglover952]

For comic effect I overlooked that,it’s not actually Duncan bannatyne you know?

[@Papion.777]

Good 1 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kaizenmckenzie4782]

We need a movie of this guy

[@mattmcauliffe7126]

Legend.

[@jonwalton4286]

Yes John it’s ya old pad mate walshy!! Look very Weil brother keep it up

[@friederichnietzsch]

Crazy thing about these stories, and crimes, and events, similar things are happening right now and someone will be sat on another episode of 'Minutes With' in 5, 7, or 10 years, to share a similar story.

[@AJ-Themes-for-Great-Cities]

Cracking story…

[@bradleytobylee4945]

“Obviously I started with speed” yeah very obvious mate, like what else you gonna do hey?

[@robynmeyer7796]

Life is a journey… sometimes it really is a mission, but looking back I wouldn’t have it any other way. When I Look In The Mirror: When I look in the mirror what do I see? Someone my mother wanted me to be? Someone my father, partner, brother…wants me to be? Or is it the person I Want Me to See? When I look in the mirror I wink and smile Life’s been a journey - every mile Sometimes I laughed and sometimes I cried There were even times when I nearly died. When I look in the mirror what do I see? The person I Want Me to Be! Every mistake was a lesson…but I blossomed and grew…the person in the mirror is the one person whom I truely understand and trust…I’m a good lady… - and who cares what the rest of the world thinks. Be yourself!

[@matthewimhardbrucelee6995]

One minute he said he only sold weed as the coke carried to big a sentence then proceeds to say how he served time for selling coke 😂😂

[@Mrfkdup]

When shipments come in they arrive with things that were not ordered by your firm , guns coke , heroin meth the lot 🥴

[@Chris-lr2qb]

Editing

[@MrChips91100]

I think he means ‘selling’ as in, comparative to proper importers he was fairly low level on C.

[@WJLMAROON]

He says at the end of his first sentence he was angry as he got hit with a 14 mil fine and his businesses and properties were impounded which likely caused his family problems. He was desperate to get it back and as quickly as possible. And so greed got him, as it does everyone in the end.

[@EarthEart]

Coke suckers😂

[@eddunne4190]

The qud what a place I only ever went once OMG

[@andyzillla4133]

There are some BS crimes that people deserve a second chance. Fair play.

[@stephenjones529]

Seems a decent fella

[@PaulHolman-sh5ts]

Great fella John .. heart of gold

[@MichaelMaye-ux6vk]

smart guy and an asset to society.

[@fridgeways2300]

I enjoy all of these, but is that the same composer as the Minecraft music?

[@garethshaw5165]

Made mistakes but turned his life around. Fair play to him.

[@pauly44loveyou]

Dave Chisnell the darts player ain’t it?

[@lorents8176]

fellas a unit

[@Brian64512]

Watch out, watch out, there's TOUTS about 👀.

[@Rockyboy84]

This bloke is a ringer for Patrick Bet-David if u change the hair and accent

[@owentolworthy8465]

True gent. Dont make them like him anymore

[@Matt-wr9cc]

Genuine fella top interview

[@lucabrasi3964]

3 million a week and what's he got to show for itv

[@Swagzezzz]

Have you seen what’s on his wrist 😅

[@thaimanclark]

4.5 years in Canada 100 grams pure Thai heroin 1979, was 29.

[@thaimanclark]

74 and living in Thailand near the Golden Triangle.

[@John_Wood_]

Eyes bulging out of his head.

[@Chell-o4p]

Gotta be still on it 😮

[@jordanmossman5614]

Seems like a sound fella

[@sjukbasketball8498]

Great example of why mitigation shouldn’t ba allowed. Gnip should be deported as well

[@philshankly]

Is he still on one? 👁👁

[@alfie8600]

What’s his name

[@max-nm6qx]

"FROM GANGS TO GOD "BY RON HALVERSON POWERFUL TRUE STORY FROM THE BRONX CONEY ISLAND ENJOY UNMISSABLE WATCH GOD IS LOVE FOREVER ❤

[@madmaori9199]

What aload of waffle... everyone I know has a past worse than this.. but talking about making it sound cool and doing time fuck that the trick behind it is not getting caught... drugs and dealing is a mugs game...

[@joeymcloughlin6123]

Round vauxhy it is fuckin caked in doe 🤣😂 them numbers he ain’t messin

[@jotttn]

CAB were hot to trot from 98 >

[@cp88p43]

That's bully tactics by the police. They new u had a weak point. And give ur self up.

[@loveMovementJ]

Diddly never came this early 😍

[@JackWiltshire-x8s]

Helmet

[@fsociety.dat101]

Seems like crime does pay. This guy lived the life, spent a few years in prison and went right back to normal. Wish I was smart enough to be a criminal and make some real money. Instead of earning peanuts in retail.

[@carltonbreezy]

Exactly. He's sorry he got caught so reinvented himself as a good person.

[@mrboonie620]

Defo pays hes sitting there with a platinum day date on

[@Alexibawendi]

From $10K to $25k that's the minimum range of profit return every week I think it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family

[@stanleymaxon]

Damn that's huge, how do you make that much weekly? I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??

[@stanleymaxon]

That's great!!. I don't know anything about investing and I intend to start. What are your strategies?

[@MarlinReese]

Can I also do it??? My life is facing lots of challenges lately.

[@NickAnthony322]

Wow! Kind of in shock you mentioned expert, Jenifer Spencer. What a coincidence

[@AnthonyMcgee-xr7tu]

You don't have to be stunned, she's one of the finest portfolio managers in the field, She's widely recognized.

[@stoneralien5163]

Sam walkers dad

[@ds.3577]

Actually?

[@TheBear657]

Geezer

[@wanhunglo7234]

No one was selling weed int 80s

[@Peter-ix1ym]

They were in 87

[@t3zzy-rq6mj]

Weed was in the cavern club in liverpool in the 60s

[@DavidMonk-t6j]

Weeds been around for time 👌🏻

[@wanhunglo7234]

It's been around for time but most people smoked hash in the 80s as weed was full of seeds n crap people weren't knocking out tons a week n that there wasn't that big demand for it weed only got big in early naughties

[@vitocorleone6023]

@wanhunglo7234 No i remember weed in the late 70s around toxteth dingle chinatown wavetree, weed was big already round there all the young lads were onit i remember the grafton being fogged out in the early 80s because everyone in there was smoking it

[@chrispandis9221]

LADbible trying to stay relevant copying Soft White Underbelly

[@MegaJasperdog]

Have a day off will you lad

[@forshfam]

Still looks wired now

[@sjsa7160]

No diddy

[@chunky9791]

"The UK Diddler" mate.

[@gutz323]

​@@chunky9791what is a Diddy, or a diddler? Never heard that expression. Someone in the comments also said a similar thing.

[@FGinoz]

@@gutz323 P Diddy, music artist/producer accused of dozens of sexual assaults spanning over decades

[@gutz323]

@@FGinoz OK mate! I get what ya mean now. Just never heard the saying "a didler!"

[@FGinoz]

@@gutz323 no worries

[@RyanKing-h1k]

First 🇬🇧

[@gregdudds5242]

Gx

[@neilcolwell3107]

Come on the Belfast Linfield FC ⚽️👑🇬🇧☘️✋🏼

[@neilrafferty2097]

Sorry, don't want to know about these bastards.

[@JayOhEff]

Jog on then...

[@neilrafferty2097]

@@JayOhEff Gone.

[@builderbob1067]

Dont watch it clown haha

[@DavidMonk-t6j]

Don’t watch then

[@neilrafferty2097]

@@DavidMonk-t6j I didn't.

[@GedT-q5z]

What’s this guys instagram ?.

[@PaulHolman-sh5ts]

I don’t think he has instagram but look for inside connections that’s his business

[@dantheman8877]

Rocky 😂 i havnt heard someone say that in years🫡