Family man led double life as drug criminal

Stephen Richard Goodwin deposited £596,893 – the proceeds of another criminal’s drug trafficking – into several bank accounts in Jersey and the UK between 2006 and 2011.

Goodwin, who initially told police that the money had come from ‘high stakes’ games of poker, spent almost £300,000 on himself and his family, which included a £7,500 Chanel watch for himself, a £2,800 Chanel watch for his wife and more than £61,000 on ‘home improvements’.

The 51-year-old, who had 14 bank accounts, 15 credit cards, seven pre-paid Euro credit cards and a premium bond account in his name, also failed to declare on his Income Tax returns that he was working between 2006 and 2007 as an IT consultant despite claiming Social Security benefits because he was suffering from ‘severe clinical depression’.

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