"The wheelchair-bound Godfather who ruled Britain's heroin market
By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent
Published: 17 February 2006
Confined to a wheelchair and working from a scruffy back room in north London, few would have believed Abdullah Baybasin controlled 90 per cent of the heroin smuggled into Britain.
Unable to walk since the mid-Eighties the 45-year-old Kurd came to England from Turkey in 1997 to claim asylum from persecution. But far from being a helpless victim, Baybasin and his young followers, known as the bombacilars (the bombers), at one stage ran one of the country's most powerful drugs networks."
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