Michael Showers

For the actor, see Michael Showers (actor).

Michael Showers
Born	14 July 1945 (1945-07-14) (age 79) Liverpool, England
Occupation	Gangster/retired

Michael Showers (born 14 July 1945) is a convicted drug dealer from Liverpool. In 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 cannabis smuggling. Showers has since been released. Showers is the father to 8 children

Early life

Michael Showers was sent to juvenile prison in 1963 (aged 17) for his part in a stabbing. After being released Showers started his criminal career as a bank robber. Showers was a Toxteth community leader around the time of the 1981 Toxteth Riots and in the wake of the riots formed the Toxteth-based Liverpool 8 Defence committee and for a short time during the 80s despite his convictions for robbery, shooting, stabbing and drug trafficking landed himself a job working for the Liverpool council as an immigration advisor.

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.