The Caribbean Holiday: Episode 06

UK True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 6 of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam.
0:07.0	Next week we look at a complicated and brutal London murder which remained unsolved for
0:12.4	a number of years. It baffled detectives. Today's case is, well, on the surface it's much
0:18.8	more straightforward, but in my view it's just as fascinating. I hope you enjoy it too.
0:25.3	To many of us who dreamt of being a professional sportsperson, we are fascinated when those
0:30.3	people who are living our dreams and they appear to have it all when they spectacularly
0:34.8	get it wrong and become involved in this serious crime.
0:39.2	Probably the highest profile case in recent years is Aaron Hernandez who, as you probably
0:44.7	know, who starred for New England Patriots in the NFL before being found guilty of the
0:49.2	murder of an acquaintance Odin Lloyd. He was found guilty in April 2015.
0:55.6	And will now spend the rest of his life in prison.
0:58.0	There are plenty of examples here in the UK, but the highest profile one this year was
1:03.2	Adam Johnson, a professional footballer in the Premier League with Sonntont, who on the
1:07.7	24th of March 2016 was sentenced to six years in prison for grooming and sexual activity
1:14.2	with a girl age just 15. In today's episode we move to a sport much less mainstream than
1:20.7	NFL or Premier League football. Today we look at cricket. Cricket has always been marketed
1:27.0	as a gentleman's game, but if you are not familiar with the game, please don't be fooled.
1:32.4	The days of polisoplaurs and impeccable manners they're long behind us.
1:37.9	The global authorities are currently considering introducing a red card system similar to football
1:43.4	for bad behaviour. And in UK club cricket in 2015, at least five games were cancelled for
1:50.2	serious violent behaviour. Verbal abuse to the umpires is standard nowadays.
1:57.6	The growth of the professional game, especially of the T20 version of cricket, which is a shorter
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