Steven Semmens said: 'I was drinking with a friend and they said: 'Do you want to go and see the grave?'. And then my friend said: 'Sniff cocaine off it' and bet me £200 I wouldn't do it on Facebook Live.'
A Welsh drug dealer left Colombia "never to return" after snorting cocaine from the grave of feared drug lord Pablo Escobar. Steven Semmens subsequently said he carried out the stunt for a bet and did not think things would go as far as they did.
READ MORE: Brothers punched woman in the face after petty row about kids 'leaving football marks on neighbour's car' Steven Semmens – also known as Steven Pascoe – aged 39, of Constant Road, Taibach, Port Talbot; Andrew Botto, aged 34, of Penlan Fach, Penlan, Swansea; Shane White, aged 34, of Broomhill, Port Talbot; and 37-year-old Ieuan Emlyn Williams, of Ynys y Gored, Port Talbot, had all previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine between April 2020 and August 2021 when they appeared in the dock for sentencing on Thursday. Semmens and White had also admitted to conspiracy to import cocaine.
He said Semmens snorting cocaine off the grave of the cartel boss Pablo Escobar came to the attention to Escobar's "criminal confederates" and was something which they were "not pleased" about. The court heard shortly after this incident Semmens left Colombia "never to return". The barrister described his client as "naïve" and as a "fantasist" inhabiting a Walter Mitty world of a "lifestyle he sometimes thinks he has".
James Wing, for White, described his client as a middle man connecting dealers dealers and suppliers and moving money. He said the defendant had not been working for a Class A drug crime group and had been working in a "quasi-self-employed capacity" for which he was paid on a commission basis and at the same time had still been working for family's glazing business.
As part of the same operation Richard Philip Ronald Gerrard, aged 42, of Heysham Road, Heysham Lancashire, had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine alongside Semmens, White, Botto, and Williams and he has already been sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison.
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