Terry Stone Connection

The British Safe Blower Hired To KILL Pablo Escobar | Dave Tomkins

Terry Stone Connection

Show Notes

Dave Tomkins lived a life that sounds like it was written for a crime film.

Known as The Great Safe Blower, Dave was a flamboyant British criminal from Basingstoke whose reputation in the underworld took him far beyond safes, vaults and robberies.

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In this episode of The Terry Stone Connection, Dave sits down with Terry to talk about his extraordinary life, from his early days as a safe blower, to becoming connected with serious underworld figures, to ending up on the battlefields of Angola as a mercenary fighting communist-backed guerrillas.

And then there’s the story that sounds almost impossible to believe…

Dave Tomkins claims he was hired to kill Pablo Escobar.

This is a wild journey through crime, danger, war, survival and the kind of old-school underworld stories you simply don’t hear anymore.

Raw, outrageous and unbelievable, this is the Dave Tomkins story.

Watch now and let us know in the comments: is this one of the craziest lives we’ve ever had on the podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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