Friday, 25 August 2017

How A Chance Prison Meeting Launched George Jung And Carlos Lehder's Billion Dollar Cocaine Empire


Thanks in large part to the Johnny Depp film Blow, George Jung is one of America's most notorious drug dealers. And his legendary status can be traced back to 1974, when he was a low-level drug smuggler. Just like you see in the movie, Jung had been sentenced to four years in Danbury, Connecticut at the Federal Correctional Institute after being caught with a truck filled with marijuana in Chicago.

'I was gang-raped on my wedding day' - Terry Gobanga



When Terry Gobanga - then Terry Apudo - didn't show up to her wedding, nobody could have guessed that she had been abducted, raped and left for dead by the roadside. It was the first of two tragedies to hit the young Nairobi pastor in quick succession. But she is a survivor.

It was going to be a very big wedding. I was a pastor, so all our church members were coming, as well as all our relatives. My fiance, Harry, and I were very excited - we were getting married in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi and I had rented a beautiful dress.

But the night before the wedding I realised that I had some of Harry's clothes, including his cravat. He couldn't show up without a tie, so a friend who had stayed the night offered to take it to him first thing in the morning. We got up at dawn and I walked her to the bus station.