Michael Showers is a convicted drug dealer from Liverpool. As of 2010, he was arrested in Turkey by a joint operation by the Turkish Police and the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the drugs baron was reprimanded after being linked to alleged heroin smuggling.

Early life

Michael Showers was a self-proclaimed Toxteth community leader around the time of the 1981 Toxteth Riots

Toxteth riots

The Toxteth riots of July 1981 were a civil disturbance in Toxteth, inner-city Liverpool, which arose in part from long-standing tensions between the local police and the black community...

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Operation Rain Man

Showers was famously jailed for 20 years in 1991 after attempting to negotiate a route for £2m worth of high-grade heroin to enter the UK. During the 1990s, his plot was thwarted by a police sting called "Operation Rain Man". The Toxteth Gangster was caught following the elaborate operation between British police and HM Customs and their counterparts on the Indian sub-continent led to the seizure of 12 kg of the drug.