Druglord by Graham Johnson

Author:Graham Johnson [Graham Johnson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2011-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

This tape is unique because it is one of the only recordings of a secret plea-bargaining meeting. Prison officers later discovered the illegal recorder – possibly during a meeting at Strangeways police station – and confiscated the device along with several of the tapes. Haase explained to the prison governor, contemptuously and with a snide reference to Customs, ‘Well, you can’t really trust these bastards, can you?’ Customs officers went ballistic, fearing their potentially compromising conversations had been recorded. They threatened to call off the deal. Haase convinced them that there were no other copies. He was lying. Copies had already been smuggled out of prison and buried. Not realising they had been duped, the officers resumed the plea-bargaining talks.

Despite the complicated discussions, several clear outcomes emerged. Haase and Bennett were considering grassing up the Turks in person if enough time was scrubbed off their sentences. At this stage in the negotiations, Customs were not completely on board, so to effect a compromise Haase and Bennett agreed to inform on the Turks vicariously – by ‘persuading’ Eddie Croker to do their dirty work for them and make a statement against the Turks. For the prosecution, this wasn’t as good as Haase and Bennett ratting on their co-defendants in their own words, but it was a start. Later, Haase and Bennett agreed to help further by trying to convince Ergun and Kaya to go guilty in a series of specially set-up prison meetings. For this, they were given credit in Paul Cook’s secret report to the judge.

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