Jailed drug baron Curtis 'Cocky' Warren will be banned from WhatsApp - and Scotland - when he is released

A jailed drugs baron dubbed Britain's Pablo Escobar will be freed next month, but when he is out he will be banned from WhatsApp - and won't be allowed to travel to Scotland without telling the authorities first.

Curtis 'Cocky' Warren, now 59, is poised to be released from his prison sentence but he will be subject to the terms of an uber-strict crime prevention order which means his liberty will be restricted. The Liverpool mobster once reputed to be worth almost £200m, who had links with Manchester gangland, has been behind bars for the last 14 years.

But when he finally emerges from jail next month he will be prohibited from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and from using cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.

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He will also have to give his National Crime Agency (NCA) minder minder a day's notice even for the most mundane activity the rest of us take for granted, for instance getting into someone's car or van. A recent Times report said if Warren wants to travel to Scotland he will have to provide that National Crime Agency (NCA) with seven days' notice.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who was the director of public prosecutions in 2013, previously applied for a serious crime prevention order against the former nightclub bouncer. Sir Keir said at the time: "There are very real grounds to believe that, without this order being made, Curtis Warren would continue to be involved in serious crime."

Warren was known as the key man in Europe for Colombia's Cali Cartel which controlled a large portion of the world's cocaine supply. At the age of 34, Warren's empire, built off drug money, included properties in Wales, Spain and Gambia, a winery