By Lucy Caulkett-
A former drug baron from Cambridgeshire on a dodgy recall to prison has had his request to leave jail to attend his mother in law’s funeral rejected.
Marcus Brown, 62 from Cambridgshire, was arrested and imprisoned in March 2022, after being on the run for two months from a suspicious recall from the probation services. The recall was in relation to drugs found in a vehicle registered in his business, but which was being driven by his son in law.
His family say the recall was inspired by the ill motives of probation officers with their own hidden agenda to prevent legal challenges he was making against Greater Manchester Police and separate challenges against the probation services themselves.
The family have sent multiple mails to MP Stephen Barclays, and contacted sections of the press in desperation to have someone hear their case, but the the abhorrent past of Mr. Brown has turned all heads the other way, without any real examination of the details. The authorities wanted him behind bars, and were not going to let him out to anybody’s funeral.
MP Barclays repeatedly said the matter was out of his hands, but referred the case to Cambridgeshire Police Commissioner.
Mr Brown’s’ daughter, Tiffany Brown, told The Eye Of Media.Com that her father was ”really gutted” at not being allowed to attend his wife’s mother’s funeral on Monday, June 18th.
”My dad was completely gutted he could not attend his mother in law’s funeral, he knew her for over 40 year’s. He and his son were the only ones who could not attend the funeral. It was very painful to hear they would not release him to see her one last time, and those prison people do what they like, they don’t give reasons for nothing. They move him from one prison to another, with no notice at all. They just turn up and say you going to that prison now. They just don’t care.
”My dad and brother would have been on my nan’s mind in her final months. One of her last word’s were that she hopes your outlet can do its best for my dad and brother. My brother hasn’t seen daylight since 2016 for nothing. They have proved nothing at all, it’s all been lies’. My nan was carrying the pressure that two of her family were in jail out of corruption not justice. She might have been 84, but she could keep going. The whole thing affected her badly, she even wrote to MP Stephen Barclays over my dad’s imprisonment. I heard her very last moments”.
Her dad, Marcus Brown was sent moved from HMP Wayland prison to HMP High point in Norfolk at short notice, and without any explanation given to him for the move.
Prison service headquarters sometimes tell a prison to move a number of people because the prison is getting too full. Prisoners are also sometimes moved from a prison they know to a busy prison to where they feel less safe.
Frustration
Tiffany, who sounds very angry and frustrated at a lot that has occurred, expressed frustration that her father’s lawyers have not allowed them see a copy of their legal presentation.
‘My father is dyslexic, he can’t read properly. ”Every time, we are given permission by our own family to witness legal papers, we are turned down. Either we can’t get hold of nobody or we are turned down. The probation services have done everything to make our lives hell. They are the most corrupt bunch going. Their boss said they had never heard of my dad, but they recalled him to prison and he was supposed to have signed the recall. But he told me himself when I first called him, he had never heard of my dad. And everybody has just backed them”.
Danger
Marcus Brown was fighting for his son, Aaron Brown, who was accused of posing a danger to the mother of his child, Jessica Myles, her boyfriend, and two parents.
It was believed that Myles had expressed fear of her life to police , on which action Aaron Brown -already on an IPP sentence- was kept in jail since 2016.
When confronted under our investigation, she said she had been pressured by social services to say whatever she said, or she could lose her children.
The Cambridgeshire probation services have dodged all questions presented to them by The Eye Of Media.Com about the recall , but this publication understands they have told the parole board that under no circumstances do they think he should be released.
Mr. Brown’s mother in law, Pam Redman, died on June 18, of sepsis. Her final four months on earth was damaged by the fact that her son in law and her niece were in prison for reasons the whole family believe to be unjust.
The former drug pusher was fighting for the release of his son by putting in an official complaint against the probation service and complaining to the professional standards about Greater Manchester Police.
Barely a week after the Ombudsman for probation services opened up a case against the probation services, Marcus Brown was suddenly recalled to prison, five years after he was released from prison on Parole, and over a year after the original incident.
Marcus Brown, was the mastermind of a drug smuggling operation of £1m worth of Class A drugs into Britain via drops from light aircraft.
Cops said he travelled widely throughout Europe, the Caribbean and China, in pursuit of his drug trafficking activities. He was that man no government or police force wants on the streets.
But he turned a new leaf by setting up a business of his own called Marcusplanthireltd which includes boat removal , and porter cabin. The nature of his business meant that he was traceable on every given day.
His engagements were on a daily basis and he had his finger prints taken each day on the ports.
The probation services suspicion he was still involved in drug dealing has not stacked up with the facts.
His family say police have always labelled them as crooks because of his dad’s horrid past.
Mr. Brown has six days to wait for his next Parole Hearing on July 25, but his family insist the probation services want him kept there until his October court case for the drug charges.
His wife, Susan Brown, whose mother was just buried, is said to be distraught, very ill, and potentially on her last legs herself.