Music Promoter “Roy Fowl” British Link-Up Crew and convicted drug dealer shot dead.
According to reports, Owen Clarke popularly known as ‘Roy Fowl’ or ‘Father Fowl’, was shot and killed late Friday night.
Clarke, 61, is known to be one of the founders of the popular British Link-Up Crew. They are famous for promoting lavish dancehall parties in Britain and Jamaica.
According to Loop News, “unconfirmed reports are that the shooting was perpetrated by two bike riders who shot Clarke several times, with his body collapsing in a bloody pool under a red Range Rover jeep parked on Grove Road in Kencot, St Andrew.”
Since the story broke, there have been multiple social media post expressing sadness, shock, empathy, and condolences.
Owen Clarke “Roy Fowl” emerged in Britain as one of the well-known dancehall party figures in the Jamaican scene. He led a lavish life with trademarks such as burning £50 notes, leaving price tags on £10,000 designer suits and wearing expensive gold jewellery. He was highly revered on the local scene with many either loved or feared him.
In the late 1990s, Clarke was alleged to have been the leader of an international drug ring for many years, operating out of his home in Sudbury, north London.
He was convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court in June 2004 for producing, supplying and possessing crack cocaine. Court documents alleged that he used women as ‘mules’ to smuggle the drug from the Caribbean to Britain.
According to the BBC, Clarke was caught when a police raid yielded 51 kilograms of cocaine with a street value of £1 million. Two of his accomplices were also jailed. Clarke was sentenced to 13 years in prison, which was later slashed to 11 years after he appealed the sentence.
2004 reports
“His capture in June last year marked the end of one of the biggest undercover investigation’s by Operation Trident, which specialises in gun crime in London’s black communities. The operation also involved America’s FBI and law enforcement agencies in Jamaica, Antigua and St Lucia. More than 30 people have been arrested world wide as a result and of those, 13 people have already been jailed for a total of 123 years.”
Trident head Chief Superintendent John Coles said: “This operation is by far the biggest and most successful we have so far undertaken.
“It has meant a major international drugs ring has been taken out of operation, disrupting the supply of crack cocaine from the Caribbean to London and the rest of the UK.”
There are reports, he owned a multi-million-pound cliff top mansion in Jamaica and drove a £75,000 Jaguar, laundered money by exporting top-of-the-range cars, of which police have recovered four, a fraction of the number he dealt with, said Det Sgt Waller.
Clarke’s link to murders
See http://jamaicangroupiemet.com/blog/2012/07/20/the-british-link-up-crew/ for detail reporting of Owen Clarke’s notorious lifestyle.
Clarke was deported from the United Kingdom to Jamaica after is time in prison and has been there ever since.