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Podcast: UK True Crime Podcast
Episode: Always Cheat & Always Win: Episode 419
Description: Roderick McLean said it was important to 'always cheat: always win'. A larger than life character, McLean, known as 'Popeye', was sent to prison when police and customs officers captured a gang of eight drug smugglers off the Caithness coast. During the raid customs officer Alastair Souter was killed when he fell and was crushed between a customs cutter and the gang's boat. The drugs haul netted three tons of cannabis, valued at £10 million.McLean, the gang leader, was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison. But there is so much more than this to the s...