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This is the moment Alton drug baron James Harding was arrested after disembarking a private jet. Harding, 34, has since been found guilty of importing cocaine into the UK and planning the murder of a rival after police cracked his mobile phone messages. Harding, who grew up in the East Hampshire town but was based in Dubai, was the leader of a "sophisticated" crime syndicate which made up to £5 million in just 10 weeks from importing and distributing drugs.

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00:00Mr Harding, welcome back.
00:02Hi, thanks very much.
00:03No worries at all, good to see you.
00:04I'm going to hand you over to my colleague now.
00:07Yep.
00:07Listen very careful to what she's got to say.
00:09Yep.
00:10Right, James, you're going to be arrested.
00:11A warrant's been issued at Westminster Magistrates Court for you
00:14for your arrest for the following offences.
00:16Conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs
00:20and conspiracy to fraudulently evade the prohibition of an importation of a Class A drug.
00:25So you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
00:27if you do not mention one question, something which you may later rely on in court
00:30and you do say may be given in evidence.
00:32The time's 1409.
00:33Do you understand what you've been arrested for?
00:35Okay.

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