Curtis Warren is serving a 13-year sentence for conspiring to smuggle £1m worth of cannabis into Jersey in 2007 and is taking his case to the UK Privy Council next month.
He is appealing against a decision by the Royal Court – upheld on initial appeal – to allow the prosecution to use evidence obtained from the unlawful recording.
If Warren, who is thought to be serving his sentence at Belmarsh Prison, is successful it is likely that his conviction will be quashed.
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