Ron Isherwood escaped prison by swimming through shark infested water. He was a heroin addict who went from gangster criminal to drug dealer. He soon turned his heavily inked back on the life he was born into. For years he was clean. He stayed out of trouble, out of prison. Until the afternoon he went down for importing 12 kilograms of cocaine into Australia.

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