Stunt for wager: Man who sniffed cocaine from Pablo Escobar’s grave jailed for 50 years

The accused and 4 fellow cocaine conspirators have been sentenced to a complete of greater than 52 years in jail at Swansea Crown court docket within the UK.

South Wales,UPDATED: Dec 31, 2022 00:14 IST

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By India Today Web Desk: A British man who was filmed snorting cocaine on the grave of notorious mobster Pablo Escobar has been jailed for 50 years for trafficking medication, Wales Online reported. The man, recognized as Steven Semmens, vowed by no means to return to Columbia after snorting cocaine from the grave of feared drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Also generally known as the King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar was generally known as one of the vital infamous on this planet of crime.

The accused and 4 fellow cocaine conspirators have been sentenced to a complete of greater than 52 years in jail at Swansea Crown Court within the United Kingdom for peddling the Class A drug, reviews WalesOnline. Steven Semmens subsequently advised the court docket he carried out the stunt for a wager and didn’t assume issues would go so far as they did.

“I just thought it would be a laugh, I didn’t think it would go this far… I was drunk at the time… I’ve been bombarded with threats that I’m going to get skinned alive,” he had stated in 2018.

In 2018, Steven Semmens was filmed kneeling by Escobar’s grave in Itagui, Colombia and the place he spilt cocaine on his headstone. South Wales Police stated that Semmens was based mostly in Spain for almost all of the conspiracy and his job was to supply massive portions of cocaine from his Colombian drug cartel associates.

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Steven Semmens’lawyer advised the court docket that the actions of his shopper didn’t go down properly with legal confederates of the previous cartel boss, the report stated. He described his shopper as ‘naive’ and a ‘fantasist’ who inhabits a ‘Walter Mitty world of a life-style he generally thinks he has’.

The court docket was knowledgeable that the gang was engaged in trafficking massive portions of cocaine into South Wales.

Semmens and his co-conspirators, Shane White, Andrew Botto and Ieuan Emlyn Williams all beforehand pleaded responsible to conspiracy to produce cocaine once they appeared within the dock for sentencing.

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Dec 31, 2022