Ex-Cage Fighter Dies in Prison

0:00On April 3rd, a former cage fighter named Thomas High, a 40-year-old from Huddersfield, just died in prison while serving life for murdering two. Gang enforces back in June 2011. He'd been locked up at HMP Manchester, known as Strange Ways, after shooting David Griffiths and Brett Flernoy with a shotgun at a remote farm near Sainte-C-1, all still in Cornwall. Now an investigation's underway into how he passed away last month. The killing stemmed from a nasty drugs dispute, where High and an accomplice owed the victims around 40,000 pounds from their dealings. Griffiths, 35 from Berkshire and Flernoy, 31 from Mercyside, worked as muscle for a Liverpool-based gang tied to the IRA's drug, Trade. They'd been pressuring High for another cocaine run to Brazil when things turned deadly. Both victims had families. Flernoy was a boxer and pub landlord with two kids, Griffiths a dad of three, and their burned bodies were buried in a van, on the farm after the hit.

1:01The judge called High out for diving too deep into the criminal life, saying he broke the underworld rules he knew. High's buddy Ross Stone got cleared of murder, but did five years for helping hide the bodies. The jury convicted High Fast in 2012 at Truro Crown Court, and though he appealed, they only shape his minimum term from 35 years. Down to 32 before shutting it down. Prison officials confirmed High died on March 15th, 2026, and as always, within custody deaths, the prison's improvisation on Butzman is digging in to figure out what went down. Keeps the spotlight on how these old cases echo even after the bar is closed.