£198M DRUGLORD SET TO BE FREED
He will face travel & car restrictions
DRUGS baron Curtis Warren is being prepared for release after 14 years behind bars.
He will face restrictions on any assets worth more than £1,000, despite allegedly having £198million squirrelled away.
Under a serious crime prevention order, he would also face curbs on foreign travel as well as on using phones, vehicles and the internet.
Alison Abbott, of the National Crime Agency, said the restrictions help them monitor career criminals.
She added: “Anything that suggests they’re slipping into old ways can be detected early on.”
Curbs facing Warren, 58, would last five years. The Liverpudlian could be sent back to jail for breaking the conditions.
Sources said he is due to be automatically released next
year. He will not have to go
before the Parole Board.
Warren is understood to be in Long Lartin prison, a category A jail in Worcestershire. He is likely to be moved to a lower category prison in the months before his release date next November.
He was detained in Jersey in 2007 after being spotted with alleged partner in crime John Welsh, and was jailed for 13 years for a plot to smuggle £1m of drugs into the island.
Warren was handed 10 more years, of which he must serve half, after failing to pay a £198m confiscation order.
He has spent almost all of the past 25 years in jail. It includes time for killing a fellow prisoner.
Last year prison officer Stephanie Smithwhite was jailed for two years for misconduct in a public office for having a sexual relationship with inmate Warren at Frankland jail in Co Durham.
tom.pettifor@mirror.co.uk
Long Lartin prison