He worked with the British and US governments, going undercover and even helping Escobar squirrel money away from his own family and cartel, to infiltrate the drugs operation and gain his trust. His adoptive father, Patrick – who worked for a firm that printed banknotes and ran an armoured car business in Colombia – continued to live in various locations in Colombia and elsewhere after the shoot-out. Well, you can’t do that without help from governments, and that’s what my story’s about really.”

It doesn’t tell you how basically a school drop-out with no education, who could hardly read and write, suddenly becomes the world’s greatest billionaire drug smuggler. But the problem with it is, it tells you that suddenly there is this 25-year-old super-hard-case drug dealer. The Netflix hit series Narcos may have brought Pablo Escobar back into the spotlight, but his son says the portrayal is quite different from the real criminal he describes in his new book, Son Of Escobar. Today, Phillip Witcomb, as Escobar’s first-born is known, is an acclaimed fine artist living with his wife in a remote finca on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.

The baby, Escobar’s first-born son, was rescued and adopted by the MI6 agent who led the mission, Patrick Witcomb. Roberto Sendoya Escobar was in a cot beside his teenage mother when she was killed in a shoot-out during a secret mission led by a British MI6 agent to recover a cash hoard from a safe house used by a young criminal, Pablo Escobar, the man who would become the world’s most notorious drugs lord. HE HAS been witness to gun violence, a victim of attempted kidnappings, and has a birth heritage that would make some shudder.

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