2: Columbian cocaine trafficking and dealing, 7 year sentence, cravings, the wrong crowd & the right Man…

Part 2 of 2: Mauricio was born in Columbia, his parents emigrated to the UK when he was born, and he was brought up by his grandparents. When his father returned he saw him for just a week before he died of cancer. His brother and he then returned with his mother to the UK in 1983, and went to primary school in Chelsea, not speaking any English. At about 15 he started getting involved with the wrong crowd, smoking cannabis to start with, and then class A’s, cocaine and crack as well. Then he got involved in selling cannabis at school to supply his need, but as years went on he got more involved in the class A’s. At 17 he went back to Columbia, and met some people, and that’s where it all started. They put money on the table to bring drugs back to the UK by swallowing them, it was easy and good money for a 17 year old, and seemed nice. So Mauricio got more involved amongst the sort of circles that were shifting drugs. He had a bit of money, was always out partying, drinking and taking drugs all the time. It seemed a great lifestyle to live. At 18 he went to America and was selling crack, but smoking the profit, and consuming was beginning to take over, but he managed to get out of that and returned to Columbia and the same deal began over again – getting involved with traffickers. When he was 20 years old he got caught, and received a seven year sentence at the age for drug trafficking. When moved from Feltham to the Vern, he was one of the first to get involved in a …