The phone call seemed typical of any loving father wishing a happy birthday to his young son. Dad told the boy he was stuck at the office: “Have a lovely day,” he said “I love you to the moon and back, speak soon.” But the man was lying.
He knew they wouldn't be speaking again for a long time. That was because he was kingpin Robert Brooks and rather than being at the office, he was in Luton police station where he was being quizzed over a huge drug trafficking plot.
The extraordinary call features in a Channel 4 documentary, The Home Counties Drug Cartel, which follows the Eastern Regions Special Operations Unit investigation into Brooks and his network.
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