Gang kingpin Curtis Warren is coming out of jail to an underworld in turmoil, Hollywood offers, and constant police attention

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A notorious drugs baron with links to Manchester is due out in November - and will emerge to a very different underworld. Curtis Warren, 59, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1million of cannabis into Jersey and is now due for automatic release.

He can expect to be welcomed by offers to tell his life story on one side - and never-ending police surveillance on the other. He will also discover an underworld in turmoil due to the hacking of the Encrochat network.

Sources close to the Liverpool-born drug baron, whose operation included a number of Manchester-based criminals, claim that he has been inundated with letters and promises of a big money deal for screen adaptations of his life story.

“There’s no chance Curtis will get back in the game once he’s out. Not only would it be a daft move as he will have eyes on him everywhere he goes, he’s just not interested," an underworld source told the Daily Star Sunday.

“He’s actually had loads of offers from film and documentary makers. Big names in Hollywood. Big streaming giants have also been offering big numbers for his story.

“I mean it’s a cracking story isn’t it. Kid from Toxteth rises through the ranks to become one of the biggest drug dealers in the world doing business with the Cali Cartel in Colombia and is even named on the Sunday Times Rich List. And that’s just the stuff that’s already out there. There’s so much more that people don’t know. Who wouldn’t be interested in that?”

Warren, reputed to have £198million squirrelled away, will be hit with a string of other curbs on his lifestyle under a serious crime prevention order, including restrictions on foreign travel, his financial affairs, his use of the internet, phones and vehicles.

The source