trials, the witness, who will now be a target for life, gave crucial evidence against the defendants.One of the criminals he helped put away was a gang boss from the Balkans who masterminded the smuggling of millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the UK from Brazil.His role, reminiscent of Ray Liotta's FBI informant Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's mobster movie Goodfellas, can be reported today after he and his family were given protective custody.
The informant was a cocaine dealer who fell out with his associates and was kidnapped and tortured over debts he owed before he decided to give evidence.
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