Liverpool Narcos

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7.7/10(3)

In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest players, this is the story of how drugs went mainstream and dealing became a multi-billion pound business

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Ended

First Aired

June 3, 2021

Last Aired

June 17, 2021

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Sky Documentaries

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Season

Heroin

Air date: 2021-06-03

How heroin and its availability in the ‘80s changed life for the criminal underworld and for communities where it was rife. The director interviews all sides of the trade – a smuggler, detectives and customs officers, a journalist, drugs counsellors and an addict.

Ecstasy

Air date: 2021-06-10

Moving in to the late ‘80s, the drugs revolution sparked by the arrival of ecstasy and how dealers, club bouncers and their bosses fought it out to gain control of a very lucrative market

Cocaine

Air date: 2021-06-17

In the ‘90s Liverpool’s Narcos set up direct contact with Colombian cartels to flood the UK with cocaine, becoming multi-millionaires in the process. The focus is Curtis Warren and on Stephen Mee, described by the police as kingpin Warren’s second in command.