How a single text message exposed a major Newport crime boss
The BBC documentary Catching a Crime Boss, available on BBC iPlayer as part of the Crimewatch Caught series, dives into one of Gwent Police’s most complex and far-reaching drug investigations, Operation Mayland.
What begins with a single text message between two dealers in Merthyr Tydfil unravels into a multi-million-pound drug network spanning South Wales and beyond.
The film follows detectives, surveillance teams, and covert officers as they painstakingly track Robert Andrews, a seemingly ordinary father of three from Newport, who was secretly running a major cocaine and heroin operation. As one officer describes, Andrews was........





















Toi Staff
Gideon Levy
Tarik Cyril Amar
Stefano Lusa
Mort Laitner
Sabine Sterk
Robert Sarner
Ellen Ginsberg Simon
Mark Travers Ph.d