Gangsters' Wives by Tammy Cohen

Author:Tammy Cohen [Cohen, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Crime & Criminals, Women, True Crime, Organized Crime, Criminals
ISBN: 9781847249784
Amazon: B0073BHA66
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2010-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

‘DONNA‘

Donna is forty-seven, with carefully highlighted blonde hair, and a downright dirty laugh. Originally from California, she now lives quietly in Brighton with her fourteen-year-old daughter Mae. During the 1990s, Mae’s father, Mark, was one of the big players supplying Ecstasy on the London rave scene. The fact he’d already served a two-year prison sentence for shooting someone had helped garner him a fearsome reputation in underworld circles. Despite her sheltered upbringing, Donna not only accepted her husband’s activities, but enthusiastically participated in them, regularly couriering large quantities of drugs up and down to Scotland. Since her marriage broke down three years ago amid bitter recriminations from both sides, Donna has been struggling for money for the first time in her life and is even considering getting a ‘proper’ job. She originally agreed to be identified for this book, wanting to act as a cautionary example to any ‘naive idiots’ like her younger self, but changed her mind at her daughter’s insistence. ‘I have to accept her wishes. She’s been through enough,’ she said.

I was a typical Californian all-American girl – blonde, sporty, with a permanent smile on my face. So quite how I ended up living in the East End of London, married to a big-time drug dealer and running thousands of pounds worth of drugs up and down to Scotland is anyone’s guess.

I didn’t come from a rich background, but I would say I came from a decent background. I did well at school, went to college and came out with a Bachelor of Science degree.

When my mother passed away and left me a decent sum of money, I decided to go travelling for a few months. I had an enquiring mind and wanted to see more of life than just the place I’d grown up in.

I met Mark in London. I was in a club called City of Angels, which I thought was quite ironic seeing as I come from Los Angeles. I thought he was the most striking man I’d ever seen in my life. Even after everything we’ve been through I have to admit he’s a handsome bastard. He’s very unusual-looking, mixed-race and at that time had a head of dreadlocks. To me at twenty-three, he was really exotic. Of course I had no idea he’d just come out of a two-year stretch in prison for shooting someone.

I just walked straight up to him and said, ‘Hi. You look like you’re having some fun.’ Pretty cool line, huh? Not. He turned round to me and asked, ‘Do you want something to drink?’ I replied, ‘Yes, please’, and then promptly ran to the bar and bought it myself. He must have thought he had it made!

We didn’t chat that much. He wasn’t really a conversationalist. He asked me if I wanted a smoke. I’m not really a puffer, but I said yes because I wanted to be with him. We went outside and sat down on a staircase and he rolled a spliff, then turned around

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