‘I cut off his fingers... and slept like a baby’
UNDERCOVER Mail reporters contacted ‘the Devil’ on his Instagram site, posing as potential clients. He agreed to meet near his north London home, where he explained how he ran his business – and warned what happened to those who crossed him.
On the client who failed to pay:
‘My guys put him in a van. Guess what? I took him from Stokeon-Trent all the way down to London, I put him in a weed house basement, beat him up three times a day, he didn’t give me no alternative, I cut off two of his fingers.
‘I said this should be a scar in your life and a reminder to what happens when you f*** about someone who’s true.’
‘I tell you what, I did that to that guy then I went in the evening and I slept like a baby. I did not care.
‘My stress was that I couldn’t sleep until I got him. My stress was that I have to have him in my hand.
‘Once I have in my hand he has no chance.’
On his firearms arrest:
‘They found in my Mercedes, they found a gun.’
‘I got arrested. I only stayed in jail 48 hours, then I left.
‘The thing is they did not find anything that links me with it, fingerprints.
‘Whenever I touched it I had something on my hands, every single time.’
On searching the room in his flat after arrest:
‘They turned it upside down, they didn’t find nothing.
‘But underneath – they put the dog upstairs – it was another room underneath, underneath I had white [cocaine], I had green [cannabis], I had bullets. But I tell you what, they did not find any of it.’
On his ‘Albanian Blood’ Instagram page advertising cannabis:
‘No one knows it’s me and that’s just the stupid thing.’
‘I posted it out there… and many people were interested, of course, [saying], “Yeah, we want to buy it”.’
[Reporter] So Instagram is good for advertising?
‘Yeah, advertising. Grow yourself more.’
On his cannabis farm and sales:
‘Round here, I have a place where I make... there’s going to be 2,000 or 2,500 babies [cannabis plants] every single time, like a month.
‘I have people every two months they come and get for their warehouses, they come and get for their houses, whatever.’
‘If you take this to Liverpool, a kilo of this will go even like up to five-five [£5,500].
‘This is “caramel wedding cake” [a highly potent strain of cannabis].’