James Waithe

James Waithe (born 30 December 1961) is a former judoka who represented Barbados at the 1988 Summer Olympics,^[1] and England at the 2006 Commonwealth Judo Championships.^[2] He was sensai at the University of Bristol Judo club 2001.

In November 2009, Waithe was convicted of drugs offences in Bristol, England.^[2] He was reportedly the enforcer and debt collector for drug lord Craig Rodel, whose gang turned in over £50 million a year from trafficking cocaine, MDMA, heroin and firearms. In one incident Waithe and an associate tied a man to a chair, beat him with nunchuks, stuck a cigarette in his ear and put his hands in a toaster.^[3] Police were alerted to the gang's operations after a burglary was called into a flat owned by Waithe, where police discovered an 'industrial-scale' cocaine factory.^[4]

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