Abdullah Baybasin
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In 2004 Abdullah Baybaşin was accused of being at the helm of a £25 billion heroin empire based in North London
. He had been convicted of drug charges in 2006 involving up to 5.5 lb (2.5 kg) of heroin and sentenced to 22 years in prison http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/16/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade.
However, the Court of Appeal in 2010 ordered a retrial on the drugs charge after deeming that the judge’s summing up of the evidence at the trial was unfair.
On 22 October 2010, A judge at Woolwich Crown Court in London ordered the retrial jury to find Baybasin not guilty because the lack of prosecution evidence meant that a conviction would be unsafe. Judge Charles Byers said that there was no direct evidence and very little circumstantial evidence of Baybasin's involvement in a conspiracy to supply 5 lb (2.3 kg) of heroin. (http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpps/news/britains-heroin-godfather-freed-after-smuggling-retrial-collapses-dpgonc-20101022-bb_10242016)
His family members claimed that Abdullah Baybaşin is a victim of injustice; he was wrongly accused by the British Police. They alleged that he was convicted at the first trial despite the lack of any evidence against him, except the statement of a convicted felon, that turned out to be untruthful, unreliable and unsafe. It was also claimed that the British Press declared him quilty on the basis of hearsay without carrying out any kind of investigation into the accusations against him. (https://publish.istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2010/10/269229.php)
On 8 November 2010, Abdullah Baybasin was rewarded £20,000 in damages by the Prison Services. The Ministry of Justice has accepted that Abdullah Baybasin who uses a wheelchair, suffered from degrading treatment and discrimination on account of his disability while he was in Belmarsh jail in London. On hearing the decision of the Ministry he said that " The treatment I received at HMP Belmarsh was very degrading and at times I struggled to cope. I thought I would die in prison, and often thought things would never get better," (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/08/disabled-prisoner-20000-compensation-belmarsh)
His brother Hüseyin
is serving a life sentence in Holland on drug-related charges. Both brothers grew up in Lice, Diyarbakır
in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey close to the Syria
n border.
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
. He had been convicted of drug charges in 2006 involving up to 5.5 lb (2.5 kg) of heroin and sentenced to 22 years in prison http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/16/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade.
However, the Court of Appeal in 2010 ordered a retrial on the drugs charge after deeming that the judge’s summing up of the evidence at the trial was unfair.
On 22 October 2010, A judge at Woolwich Crown Court in London ordered the retrial jury to find Baybasin not guilty because the lack of prosecution evidence meant that a conviction would be unsafe. Judge Charles Byers said that there was no direct evidence and very little circumstantial evidence of Baybasin's involvement in a conspiracy to supply 5 lb (2.3 kg) of heroin. (http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpps/news/britains-heroin-godfather-freed-after-smuggling-retrial-collapses-dpgonc-20101022-bb_10242016)
His family members claimed that Abdullah Baybaşin is a victim of injustice; he was wrongly accused by the British Police. They alleged that he was convicted at the first trial despite the lack of any evidence against him, except the statement of a convicted felon, that turned out to be untruthful, unreliable and unsafe. It was also claimed that the British Press declared him quilty on the basis of hearsay without carrying out any kind of investigation into the accusations against him. (https://publish.istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2010/10/269229.php)
On 8 November 2010, Abdullah Baybasin was rewarded £20,000 in damages by the Prison Services. The Ministry of Justice has accepted that Abdullah Baybasin who uses a wheelchair, suffered from degrading treatment and discrimination on account of his disability while he was in Belmarsh jail in London. On hearing the decision of the Ministry he said that " The treatment I received at HMP Belmarsh was very degrading and at times I struggled to cope. I thought I would die in prison, and often thought things would never get better," (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/08/disabled-prisoner-20000-compensation-belmarsh)
His brother Hüseyin
Hüseyin Baybasin
Hüseyin Baybaşin is a Kurdish drug lord. Once described as "Europe's Pablo Escobar", he is currently serving life sentence in the Netherlands convicted of drug smuggling charges.- Rise to leadership of a drug empire :...
is serving a life sentence in Holland on drug-related charges. Both brothers grew up in Lice, Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...
in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey close to the Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
n border.