We spent £45,000-a-year sending our boy to public school… but he became a £120M ‘drug lord’: Ex-Deputy Crime Commissioner’s agony as her son is jailed for 23 years over cocaine haul plot
- EXCLUSIVE: Ex police boss speaks out after her ‘drugs kingpin’ son was jailed
- Jonathan Arnold was caught in a plot to import nearly £120million of cocaine
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Sitting pensively with his team-mates in the cricket XI, this was Jonathan Arnold, the public schoolboy this week labelled a ‘drugs kingpin’ by police after being caught in a plot to import nearly £120million worth of cocaine.
Now his mother Sue, a former Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, has exclusively told MailOnline how her son, once a pupil at prestigious £45,000-a-year Repton School, alma mater of Roald Dahl and Jeremy Clarkson, dragged himself and his family on a terrifying journey into the abyss.
If Sue Arnold needed confirmation of just how badly her son’s life had gone astray, it came in the shape of a 14-strong police search team raiding her detached rural home following his arrest for serious drugs offences in March 2022.
West Midlands Police would later portray her son Jonathan as ‘the head of the organised crime group’ which used a furniture removal business as a front as a ‘colossal’ amount of drugs smuggled in from Colombia.
The force said this helped fund a lavish life of luxury including trips to Dubai, a Ferrari, an expensive Rolex and even new teeth.
