The Party Traffickers
Livvy meets dealers who plan to traffic drugs out of the UK, in order to sell to festival-goers in Paris.
With the UK festival market booming like never before, investigative journalist Livvy Haydock meets the people on the dark side of Britain’s festival season. In this episode, Livvy meets dealers who plan to traffic drugs out of the UK, in order to sell to festival attendees in Paris.
Livvy makes contact with two drug dealers named Jacket and Houdini in the UK, as they target the domestic festival market. They allow her access to view their drug-cooking process, revealing that they blend rat poison into the drugs they make to boost profits. When Livvy challenges them on the dangers of using rat poison, they claim it is common practice, and that their customers would not care.
Wearing hidden cameras, the duo record themselves selling their product inside a UK festival, where they make enough profit for stage two of the festival moneymaking scheme - targeting festival-goers abroad.
Livvy follows the duo to Paris where they plan to sell their drugs to festival-goers at an electro festival. Wearing hidden cameras, they show Livvy how they smuggle drugs across the border, evading police and security.
Once they arrive in Paris, the pressure is on to sell all the gear they have brought out, with only two days to make their profits before they return to the UK. However, when they reach the festival they discover that security is much tighter than what they have experienced at UK festivals.
On reflection of the disastrous trip, Livvy questions the pair on their success, and asks whether ultimately it was worth it.
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