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	'''Michael Michael''' (born 12 November 1957 in ])<ref>http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=%20michael&eventyear=1957&eventyear_offset=0&mothersmaidenname=%20%09konstondinou%20</ref> is an ~~English career criminal~~ of ] ~~Cypriot~~ ~~descent,<ref>Rat~~ ~~shopped~~ ~~wife~~ ~~mother,~~ ~~brother and lover http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/144139/Rat-shopped-wife-mother-brother-and-lover.html?print=yes</ref>~~ involved in drug smuggling, prostitution and money laundering. Following arrest, he turned ]/police informer, with his evidence leading to 34 people being jailed for a combined 170 years, and the dismantling of 26 different ].		'''Michael Michael''' (born 12 November 1957 in ])<ref>http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=%20michael&eventyear=1957&eventyear_offset=0&mothersmaidenname=%20%09konstondinou%20</ref> is the ex-boss of a criminal empire called the Organisation which was involved in drug smuggling, prostitution and money laundering. Following arrest, he turned ]/police informer, with his evidence leading to 34 people being jailed for a combined 170 years, and the dismantling of 26 different ].<ref name=autogenerated1/>

		⚫	Among people he informed on were his wife Lynn, given a 24-month prison sentence suspended for two years for her role as a cash ]; his lover, Sue Richards; and Janice Marlborough, his business lieutenant who ran his string of ]s. Michael's evidence led to drugs worth £49m being recovered from a distribution network that is thought to have smuggled more than 110 kg of ] and 19,000 kg of ] into Britain.<ref name=autogenerated1/><ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1365696/Supergrass-is-jailed-over-132m-drugs-ring.html</ref>
	==Career as informant==
⚫	Among people he informed on were his wife Lynn, given a 24-month prison sentence suspended for two years for her role as a cash ]; his lover, Sue Richards; and Janice Marlborough, his business lieutenant who ran his string of ]s. Michael's evidence led to drugs worth £49m being recovered from a distribution network that is thought to have smuggled more than 110 kg of ] and 19,000 kg of ] into Britain. ~~Michael has also alleged that a ] police officer took £10,000 cash handouts from him~~.

	Information about Michael's work as an informer were kept secret until December 2001, when a judge at ] ] sentenced him to six years in jail. Reporting restrictions that had been in place for three years were lifted.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/19/drugsandalcohol.nickhopkins \| location=London \| work=The Guardian \| first=Nick \| last=Hopkins \| title=Gangster supergrass jailed \| date=19 December 2001}}</ref> Michael had admitted one count of ] to import cocaine, a similar charge involving cannabis, and three conspiracies to launder the proceeds. He has also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Michael, who lived in ], Hertfordshire, is thought to have been given a new identity under the terms of the ].<ref name=autogenerated1 />		Information about Michael's work as an informer were kept secret until December 2001, when a judge at ] ] sentenced him to six years in jail. Reporting restrictions that had been in place for three years were lifted.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/19/drugsandalcohol.nickhopkins \| location=London \| work=The Guardian \| first=Nick \| last=Hopkins \| title=Gangster supergrass jailed \| date=19 December 2001}}</ref><ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1365696/Supergrass-is-jailed-over-132m-drugs-ring.html</ref> Michael had admitted one count of ] to import cocaine, a similar charge involving cannabis, and three conspiracies to launder the proceeds. He has also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Michael, who lived in ], Hertfordshire, is thought to have been given a new identity under the terms of the ].<ref name=autogenerated1 />

	Michael, a former hairdresser and unqualified accountant, became a target for customs detectives in January 1998 when the agency launched ]. He had been identified as a member of a drug ring based at the Lee industrial estate in ], Hertfordshire, that was smuggling cannabis and cocaine into the country in cars, a coach (nicknamed the Fun Bus) and a ]. When officers arrested him four months later, on 25 April, Michael was wearing ] and brandished a gun. ] heard that Michael alleged he was paying his handler up to £10,000 a week in return for providing information "of great value" to Michael's operation. He claimed the officer turned a blind eye to the smuggling. Also jailed was trusted associates Janice Marlborough and Tracey Kirby, a former '']'' ] model, received three years after admitting being a money courier. She has since been released.<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-90696/Supergrass-shopped-34-crooks---mother.html \| location=London \| work=Daily Mail \| first1=Stephen \| last1=Wright \| first2=Graham \| last2=Keeley \| title=Supergrass shopped 34 crooks – even his mother}}</ref>

	===Murder of Charlie Wilson===
	In 1990, the former treasurer of the ] ] had moved to ], Spain, where he was suspected to be involved in drug smuggling.<ref name=Wensley>{{cite book\|title=Killing Charlie: The Bloody, Bullet-Riddled Hunt for the Most Powerful Great Train Robber of All\|author=Wensley Clarkson\|publisher=Mainstream Publishing\|date=2 February 2006\|ISBN=1845960351}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://algarvedailynews.com/features/history/4416-the-great-train-robbery-part-ii-did-it-end-like-a-childrens-tea-party\|title=The Great Train Robbery Part II – Did it end like a Children's Tea Party?\|author=Jack Harvey\|publisher=algarvedailynews.com\|accessdate=28 February 2013}}</ref> Engaged to launder some of the proceeds from the ], he lost the investors £3million. On 23 April 1990,<ref name=HistoryCh>{{cite web\|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/great-train-robber-escapes-from-prison\|title=Great train robber escapes from Prison\|publisher=History Channel\|date=12 August 1964\|accessdate=28 February 2013}}</ref> a young British man knocked on the front door of his ] north of Marbella and shot Wilson and his pet ] dog before riding off down the hill on a yellow bicycle. Over the next three years, four more shootings were connected to the Brink's-Mat raid.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139945/Brinks-Mat-An-ex-cop-axe-head--Great-Train-Robber-shot-dead-Marbella.html\|title=The curse of Brink's Mat: An ex-cop with an axe in his head – and a Great Train Robber shot dead in Marbella\|author=Wensley Clarkson\|work=]\|date=5 May 2012\|accessdate=28 February 2013\|location=London}}</ref> In 2007, Michael Michael claimed to know who the killer of Wilson was, but police made no arrest.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/144139/Rat-shopped-wife-mother-brother-and-lover.html\|title=Rat shopped wife, mother, brother and lover\|work=]\|date=3 August 2007\|accessdate=28 February 2013\|location=London}}</ref>

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Revision as of 00:46, 22 August 2017

For the Australian mayor, see Mick Michael.

Michael Michael (born 12 November 1957 in Birmingham) is the ex-boss of a criminal empire called the Organisation which was involved in drug smuggling, prostitution and money laundering. Following arrest, he turned supergrass/police informer, with his evidence leading to 34 people being jailed for a combined 170 years, and the dismantling of 26 different drug syndicates.

Among people he informed on were his wife Lynn, given a 24-month prison sentence suspended for two years for her role as a cash courier; his lover, Sue Richards; and Janice Marlborough, his business lieutenant who ran his string of brothels. Michael's evidence led to drugs worth £49m being recovered from a distribution network that is thought to have smuggled more than 110 kg of cocaine and 19,000 kg of cannabis into Britain.

Information about Michael's work as an informer were kept secret until December 2001, when a judge at Woolwich crown court sentenced him to six years in jail. Reporting restrictions that had been in place for three years were lifted. Michael had admitted one count of conspiracy to import cocaine, a similar charge involving cannabis, and three conspiracies to launder the proceeds. He has also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm. Michael, who lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire, is thought to have been given a new identity under the terms of the witness protection programme.

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