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This former Merseyside drugs boss is helping ex inmates rebuild their lives
As the boss of an organised crime gang in Liverpool, John Burton was given a 12-year sentence for heading up a £1million drugs smuggling operation transporting cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines around the country. He served six years of that, first as a category A prisoner in high security alongside lifers and terrorists, then moved outside...