Drugs Boss Baron Smuggled 52 Tonnes Into UK

The Gang's Key Players

Updated: 7:38pm UK, Tuesday 26 March 2013

:: Philip Baron

Originally from Salford, he had worked as an HGV driver and ran a company called Trafford Park Tankers about 16 years ago. He had a daughter with his first wife in Greater Manchester, before moving to Ireland with his second partner to live in luxury.

His two children in Ireland, who are both models, enjoyed a high-class lifestyle, going to boarding school and owning their own horses.

But Baron's first daughter, Rachael, 30, who lived in Bolton, was left in poverty. Police believe Baron, 57, manipulated her into getting involved in his drugs network, managing his credit cards and phone bills.

She moved about £1 million in drugs money in the UK, and bought a Bentley Continental GT sports car on his behalf. She was eventually jailed for three years for money laundering.

Baron smuggled cannabis into the UK as his "bread and butter", police said, but occasionally he and his accomplice, Paul Hewett, would import cocaine as a cash boost to pay for luxury items.

:: Walter Callinan

Also known as James Jones or JJ, racehorse owner Callinan had £5 million of assets in the UK and Spain when he was arrested, including six luxury villas, one of which cost #1 million to build.

Callinan owned six fake passports and had previously absconded from prison in the 1990s while serving five years under the false name Michael Wentwood for smuggling heroin.

He was obsessed with his horse and said in emails that it did not matter if everything in his life went wrong, as long as he could still have the enjoyment of racing the animal.

Callinan spent up to £40,000 per year stabling the horse, and had pictures of the animal throughout his villa in Spain.

He kept a 200-page ledger of the drug gang's books, including purchase and sale prices and codes for customers.

In the 17 months covered by the records, the gang had imported 6% of the cannabis coming into the UK and made a £3.2 million profit.

A police officer involved in the case, who can only be named as Mark, said: "It's fair to say Walter is up there with the big hitters in terms of importation of cannabis. We believe that this is only a snapshot in the period of time that he's been unlawfully at large."

Callinan indulged his son, Ben, who never worked but frittered away £1 million on a gambling habit, taking part in the World Poker series, going on poker cruises and travelling to Las Vegas.

The pair are both now serving jail terms on the same wing of Winchester prison - Walter received 11 years and Ben two-and-a-half.

:: Malcolm Carle

Carle was nicknamed Sir Humphrey after the character in Yes Minister, left his job as a project manager in the IT department at Barclays bank to work for the gang.

Carle, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was given six years for money laundering, although he is appealing against the conviction.

Police believe he helped Baron and Callinan hide assets in Uzbekistan and Switzerland.

He also bought the Hadley Bowling Green Inn in Worcestershire for £1.2 million to launder drugs money. The current owners of the hotel have no involvement in criminality.

Carle complained in an email to Callinan that he had given up his £50,000 annual salary to risk prison. He said: "This put me in a very awkward position because I was now responsible for washing nearly £1.5 (million) in total."

The 59-year-old went on: "Due to being heavily involved with the washing of your paperwork, I left a good job and a guaranteed £50k annual income plus extras... to help you as you are a trusted friend but you now for some reason think I am the enemy."

Callinan replied to say he risked being sent to prison or "the shovel" - being murdered and buried - every day. "That is how I managed to earn the money to put into these projects, working hard non-stop and risking porridge every day.

"A grand total of what I have invested of nearly #5 million. I risk the shovel every day and other people thinking they are clever trying to f*** me." Football-mad Carle spent thousands following Chelsea and England, including going all over the world.

A police officer involved in the case, who can only be named as Mark, said: "Malcolm Carle is a staunch Chelsea supporter and he has spent £60,000 in a number of years to watch every single home and away Chelsea match and every single home and away England match throughout the world for a number of years." He had a previous conviction for football violence.

:: Paul Hewett

Hewett, 55, from Farnborough in Hampshire, lived in the UK and Spain, and owned a Porsche and a 64ft yacht but had no obvious legitimate source of income. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2010 for importing drugs, having been involved in 97 consignments.

A judge estimated the value of the drugs to be £117 million, but police said this was "very conservative".

:: Paul Yearsley

Yearsley, 46, from Eccles, Manchester, also had a yacht and a villa in Spain. One of his houses in the UK was featured in a magazine spread in Lancashire Life in 2009. Shots of the property, valued at £2.7 million, were shown under the title "Living The Dream". It was in the grounds of an even larger property that was valued at #5.5 million, and also belonged to Yearsley, who said he was a car dealer. He was jailed for five years and four months for drug trafficking.

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