Hannah isn't just the girl next door. She's a teacher who cultivates cannabis on the side. Meet the middle-class growers with a taste for easy money and uneasy morals Meet Alex. He is 26, handsome, privately educated, and, for most of his week, a freelance director of documentaries. His wardrobe is immaculately shabby: designer jeans, cast-off T-shirts and vintage trainers. The kitchen of his boutique Victorian terraced house is decked with a vast, chrome Smeg refrigerator, a dining table for 12, and two sinks so deep you could bathe in them. He's just had Velux windows put in, so the room catches the morning light. He also has big plans for the garden. [continues 3020 words]
Multimillion-pound cocaine smuggler, race-fixer, friend to the stars... Ed Caesar tracks the rollercoaster rise and fall of 'Britain's wealthiest criminal', Brian Wright Brian "The Milkman" Wright has made his final delivery. On Tuesday, at Woolwich Crown Court, the man estimated to be Britain's richest criminal was sentenced to 30 years in jail. In front of a jury - who were protected from identification by a security screen - a judge found Wright, 60, guilty of conspiring to import millions of pounds' worth of cocaine into Britain. "There is no mitigation," said Wright, before being taken down to the cells. [continues 1311 words]
