An estate agent who seems to have belonged to the National Association of Estate Agents led a secret double life as an international drug trafficker taking part in a scam to smuggle heroin and cocaine worth £1.6bn into the country on board a fleet of fake Dutch ambulances.
If the newspaper report is correct, the case again raises concerns as to controls over estate agency.
Former Manchester Grammar School pupil Jonathan Floyd, 47, collected the smuggled drugs which were hidden in secret compartments on the ambulances before re-distributing them across the north west.
Floyd has been jailed for 15 years after he and five other members of his gang admitted conspiracy to import drugs into the UK.
The Manchester Evening News said he worked in estate agency since 1999, first as a valuer and then a branch manager before becoming the managing director of his own estate agency. His firm uses the NAEA logo.
Three Dutch nationals were jailed in December for setting up the ambulance company in the Netherlands which imported drugs worth up to £1.6bn into the UK.
According to a Linked In profile, there is a Jonathan Floyd who was managing director of Floyd Residential from April 2011 until now.
His career in the industry began at the respected firm of Edward Mellor.
The company has just four reviews on allAgents, but all rate it as excellent. Floyd Residential says of itself: “We are members of the National Association of Estate Agents and Property Ombudsman scheme, so you can rest assured that you will receive professional, unbiased, honest advice at all times.”
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Comments (5)
so how many more nails do you want to put into our palms, aren’t we crucified enough without articles like this, perhaps car dealers need to be looked at as well and maybe duckers and divers, chancers and any other idiot that thinks its ok to be a drugs courier but why is it news because this pillock is or was an estate agent, jesus!!
PIE, talk about biting the hand that keeps you writing each weekday!!
Stevie
Ros is not WRITING the news – she is reporting it to us pretty much as it appears either in other media forms or as per sent out to the media houses.
By doing this she is providing an invaluable service of showing us what is being said. To be forewarned…, as goes the relevant saying.
Go out there knowing what’s being said behind your back.
Someones been watching “Layer Cake” or was “Layer Cake” based on a true story? Who knows? The truth is always wrapped up in a tangled web of lies, depending on what narrative serves the purpose of the media owned elite/elite owned media. One thing that so far has remained constant is that it is always at the cost of the mere ordinary folk.
If the newspaper report is correct, the case again raises concerns as to controls over estate agency.
I really don’t ‘get’ this. The Agency had nothing whatsoever to do with the man’s illegal activities. The story clearly states he ran a “secret double life”.
Floyd has been jailed for 15 years after he and five other members of his gang…
It wasn’t ‘his’ gang. He was one of six – but not the ‘ringleader’. Not even the ringleader’s “right hand man”, according to the actual report.
NONE of the other men’s professions were mentioned in the report.
I would respectfully suggest a re-write of the sentence above be warranted:
If the newspaper report is anything to go by, this once again raises concerns over the unnecessary and unfair pillorying of our profession by the press at any and every opportunity.
So says this particular strain of bacteria, anyway…
So clearly he was speaking literally when he told customers he’d had a sniff at their property over the weekend.