There’s a saying, what goes up must come down. And for former stock market millionaire turned drug dealer Shaun Attwood, that fall was epic.
Shaun, 51, smuggled around £10m of ecstasy between 1997 and 2002 while living in Arizona in the States. A big lover of the Manchester rave scene - a regular at clubs like Thunderdome and Konspiracy - while he was at university studying business, Shaun says he started taking the party drug to help his anxiety.
After finishing his course, he moved over to the American state to live with his aunty and got a job as a stockbroker. Still partying, Shaun, from Widnes, developed a double life - throwing raves and selling ecstasy to revellers outside work.
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