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Dec 2016
25m 34s

The Caribbean Holiday: Episode 06

Always True Crime
About this episode

To many of us who had dreams of being a professional sportsperson, we are fascinated when those people who our living our dreams, and appear to have it all, spectacularly get it wrong and become involved in serious crime.

In this episode of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast we take a detailed look at the England Cricketer, Chris Lewis, who along with ex-basketball played Chad Kirnon, in 2009 was sentenced to 13 years in prison for smuggling cocaine from the Caribbean to London.

We examine the decisions taken by Lewis and ask whether this was just a one-off crime and whether Lewis should profit from his experiences.



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