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

[@AngieJames4172]

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

[@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.

[@ImogenSimmons-ow4ej]

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

[@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

[@billie-jeanuk5576]

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

[@Here4theComments]

Keep doing them series - very insightful and educational.

[@tomellis-fu3ss]

What a great story, fair play to him 🤝

[@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.

[@KodakAllen]

Coke suckers😂

[@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.

[@rutherglenbluebell5]

Juice bomb John is a legend !!

[@kaizenmckenzie4782]

We need a movie of this guy

[@dicky3340]

Subtitles on this is boss 😂

[@wacax356]

John is a top top lad!

[@waynewatson9893]

Good to hear this

[@ioScala]

Good interview, inspiring guy.

[@billkingston4402]

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

[@gaynor7947]

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

[@philiparmitage]

😊 nice profile picture

[@MichaelMaye-ux6vk]

smart guy and an asset to society.

[@markherd3116]

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

[@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?

[@davereddock6558]

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

[@Yogi-Bear-227]

Top man.

[@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.

[@JoanneAnderson-tn2jf]

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

[@Peter.temps1]

Good on him. Seems like a decent guy.

[@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!

[@sullykhan7237]

Well done lad

[@jamiewinfield8179]

Well said lad

[@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.

[@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.

[@stephenjones529]

Seems a decent fella

[@PaulHolman-sh5ts]

Great fella John .. heart of gold

[@mattmcauliffe7126]

Legend.

[@tommills7025]

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

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

Cracking story…

[@fridgeways2300]

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

[@jasonthomas4973]

Need to do more bench brother 😅

[@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!

[@karljones5480]

What’s there app called ??

[@UnknownStrobes]

Inside Connections

[@owentolworthy8465]

True gent. Dont make them like him anymore

[@pauly44loveyou]

Dave Chisnell the darts player ain’t it?

[@Bptl1234]

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

[@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...

[@thaimanclark]

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

[@John_Wood_]

Eyes bulging out of his head.

[@lorents8176]

fellas a unit

[@sjukbasketball8498]

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

[@Rockyboy84]

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

[@lucabrasi3964]

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

[@cp88p43]

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

[@max-nm6qx]

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[@Matt-wr9cc]

Genuine fella top interview

[@onvibe1811]

Is he still on one? 👁👁

[@joncotn]

CAB were hot to trot from 98 >

[@stoneralien5163]

Sam walkers dad

[@ds.3577]

Actually?

[@loveMovementJ]

Diddly never came this early 😍

[@JackWiltshire-x8s]

Helmet

[@TheBear657]

Geezer

[@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

[@chrispandis9221]

LADbible trying to stay relevant copying Soft White Underbelly

[@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

[@gregdudds5242]

Gx

[@RyanKing-h1k]

First 🇬🇧

[@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