Drugs baron killed fellow inmate

A drugs baron who kicked a Turkish inmate to death has been sentenced to a further four years in prison.

Curtis Warren claimed he was acting in self-defence after being attacked at the maximum security Nieuw Vosseveld jail in Holland where he was already serving a 12-year sentence.

But the 37-year-old, whose family live in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, was found guilty of manslaughter after a Dutch judge ruled he had used excessive violence.

Cemal Guclu had started hurling apparently unprovoked abuse at Warren in the prison yard on the afternoon of 15 September 1999, the Court of Justice in Den Bosch was told.

Warren: "Said he acted in self-defence"

He tried to punch Warren who then pushed him against a wall, knocking him down.

Guclu tried to retaliate but was kicked in the head three or four times, the court heard.

The Turk, who was serving a 20-year sentence for murder and attempted murder after shooting dead a woman and seriously injuring her friend in a Rotterdam restaurant, got up once more before Warren again knocked him to the ground where he lay motionless.

Prosecutors had asked for a five-year sentence to be imposed on Warren.

But the court accepted that Warren, jailed by a Dutch court in 1997 for his part in a plot to smuggle drugs with an estimated value of £125m into Britain, had not started the fight.

Warren's Amsterdam-based lawyer Han Jahae said he planned to appeal.

Warren was once Interpol's "Target One" for his role in masterminding a multi-million pound scheme to flood Britain with heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis.