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Barry Clarke

Sep 10, 2026

7:22
HMCE are working a different case, one running out of southern Spain, the coast where criminals go to disappear.
7:31
As most people know, that whole area of Spain down in the Marbella area, the Costa del Crime as it's called, there's a lot of criminality down there, particularly 20-odd years ago.
7:41
Out of the blue one day, we were working other operations.
7:44
We were monitoring numerous phone boxes when someone made a phone call from a phone box.
7:50
I remember getting a phone call from the guy who'd been doing the listening.
7:54
He said, "I've got a guy here on the phone.
7:56
He's speaking to someone.

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13:29
Then I started talking.
9:16
He knows he's exposed, so he posts a lookout
9:20
I remember Brian actually had a guy who used to be his shadow, almost his minder.
9:25
He positioned himself outside the pub as a lookout to see if there was any surveillance taking place.
9:31
They were clearly spooked by something that day, but it was something we had to cover.
9:35
We had to see it.
9:36
We suspect that he may have actually worked out that Suarez was being followed.
9:41
They sat and had a brief discussion, and then they parted company.

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18:47
The covert team break into the lock-up and call back to base.
10:24
Instead, they hear him organizing his bets at the bookies.
10:29
[tense music] What he was looking for was inside information about, you know, what horse is gonna run well.
10:33
And really that was pretty much all he did all day, every day, so it was frustrating for us.
10:40
We were hoping that he was gonna give us lots of leads as to what his criminal work ...
10:45
but really all we were listening to most of the time was talking to jockeys and talking about horses and the going today at Goodwood.
10:51
And I remember on regular occasions when we were running Operation Extend, Brian Wright was losing big amounts of money, big sums of money.

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20:54
What kind of guy was Kevin Hanley? What was he like?
20:56
I'd call Kevin a typical Londoner, very down-to-earth sort of guy, very switched on, very professional in the way that he operated.
6:40
The team has to build a picture of the Milkman, get to know him better, who he hangs out with, who he talks to, where he goes, and most importantly, build evidence against him so that he can be brought to justice
6:55
What became evident really quickly was that Brian Wright was very cautious.
7:01
He was careful about who he met.
7:03
He was very careful about who he spoke to and when he spoke to them.
7:07
What you find in, in some investigations pretty quickly is that the people you're working on aren't the brightest bunch.
7:13
They're not particularly difficult to follow.
7:15
They're not particularly difficult to infiltrate.
12:06
The most recent intelligence indicates that he, as in Alex de Cubas, is now working for the Medellin cartel run by Pablo Escobar Decubas, the wrestler, the big guy, the tough guy, working for the cartels.
15:43
Barry Clarke was a crucial part of the team that would dedicate the next decade to catching Brian Brendan Wright.
15:55
We found a UK mobile phone on the vessel which confirmed our suspicions that the vessel was heading to the UK.
16:02
We also found written down on a piece of paper a UK mobile phone number, so obviously that was of great interest.
16:08
So what happened over a period of a couple of months immediately after the seizure, we started to research those two UK mobile phones.
16:16
They're pretty good clues as to who may be behind the seizure.
16:19
So a lot of effort went into trying to figure out who was on those phones and when they'd been purchased.

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In fact, he was so far under the radar, he didn't even have a bank account.
25:06
I don't know if he's passed any exams, but you know what? He's one of the smartest guys I've ever come across.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
21:54
Most of his students are Singaporean women in their 60s and 70s, but not all of them.
21:58
My name is Barry Clark.
22:00
I was born in the UK, and upon retirement, looking out for something to get more active in, I found parkour, and it's been a great experience.
22:10
Kept me healthy, both in terms of my body, but also I think in terms of my happiness and my, my mental activity has also, uh, improved as well, I believe.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
22:49
It's about the camaraderie of a shared challenge and proving that aging doesn't have to mean slowing down.
22:56
Growing old together is better than growing old alone.
22:58
The key thing is that it's, it's good for me, it's good for the community, and it's something that I think could easily be replicated in, in other societies.
23:06
So I hope it is.
Gabriel O'Regan
Gabriel O'ReganCORRESPONDENT
47:37
Most of his students are Singaporean women in their sixties and seventies, but not all of them.
47:41
My name is Barry Clark.
47:42
I was born in the UK, and upon retirement, looking out for something to get more active in, I found parkour, and I've had two years now of courses and lessons from Shi Boon, and it's been a great experience.
47:57
Kept me healthy, both in terms of my body, but also I think in terms of my happiness and my, my mental activities also are improved as well, I believe.
Gabriel O'Regan
Gabriel O'ReganCORRESPONDENT
49:30
It's about the camaraderie of a shared challenge and proving that aging doesn't have to mean slowing down.
49:36
Growing old together is better than growing old alone.
49:39
The key thing is that it's, it's good for me, it's good for the community, it's probably good for the nation, and it's something that I think could easily be replicated in, in other societies.
49:48
So I hope it is.
Gabrielle O'Regan
Gabrielle O'ReganCORRESPONDENT
26:59
Most of his students are Singaporean women in their 60s and 70s, but not all of them.
27:03
My name is Barry Clark.
27:05
I was born in the UK, and upon retirement, looking out for something to get more active in, I found parkour.
27:13
And I've had two years now of courses and lessons from Shi Boon, and it's been a great experience.
27:19
Kept me healthy, both in terms of my body, but also I think in terms of my happiness and my, my mental activity's also, uh, improved as well, I believe.
Gabrielle O'Regan
Gabrielle O'ReganCORRESPONDENT
28:52
It's about the camaraderie of a shared challenge and proving that aging doesn't have to mean slowing down.
28:58
Growing old together is better than growing old alone.
29:01
The key thing is that it's, it's good for me, it's good for the community, it's probably good for the nation, and it's something that I think could easily be replicated in, in other societies.
31:24
how they all work together and the length of time it takes and and how do you make a queen versus a worker bee and a drone
31:31
okay excellent yeah so um yeah the queen is tasked with uh with with continuing the uh the hive by she lays eggs that's her her main job and she also kind of controls uh the mood the bees communicate in the hive by through pheromones smells um that sort of thing and uh Anyway, let's start with a queen.
32:00
A queen is a fertilized egg that is no different than any of the other fertilized eggs, except she's fed a very special diet.
32:10
So right from the start, when the egg is laid, it's laid in a puddle of royal jelly.
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And royal jelly, as we discussed before the break, is a very rich, highly nutritious substance.
32:24
It's made in the glands of a nurse bee.
32:29
And a nurse bee is a female bee that's a certain age, a week or two old.

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And then they progress from a nurse bee into the field?
28:28
Okay, excellent, yeah.
28:29
So, yeah, the queen is tasked with continuing the hive.
28:38
She lays eggs, that's her main job, and she also kind of controls the mood.
28:44
The bees communicate in the hive through pheromones, smells, that sort of thing.
28:50
And anyway, the queen will...
28:53
So she...
28:55
Let's start with a queen.

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And then they progress from a nurse bee into the field?

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