'Downfall? More like clownfall!' Drug dealer Levi Watson mocked by E&S readers over boastful Instagram gallery
A convicted Black Country drug dealer has been mocked online after the Express & Star exclusively revealed his 'lavish' lifestyle.
Levi Watson, 29, received seven years in prison for his role in a Midlands drug gang.
He has now been branded a 'fool', 'plonker' and 'thickness personified' for boasting about his life online, something that alerted West Midlands Police and led to his conviction.
On Thursday the Express & Star revealed some of the pictures he posted online including one of him posing in a bath full of money, surrounding a gold Rolex with Jamaican thousand dollar bills and wrapping three watches round the gear stick of a Porsche asking his 4,500 followers: "have you seen 100 k before?"
On top of this Watson, of Orslow Walk, Park Village, Wolverhampton, has also released rap videos under his music name Prezi. In one song, entitled Hells Kitchen (Gordon Ramsay), he raps about being 'head chef' in his kitchen and is seen mixing a white powder.
Now he has received a flurry of mockery online after the Express & Star's exclusive story went viral.
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One commented: "clownfall more like" while another added: "What a thick you know what".
The personal insults continued with one saying: "Stupid is as stupid does. What a plonker", with others adding: "A fool drug dealer and his money are easily parted, then jailed, what a mug, mind you serves him right", "As Del Boy would say, what a plonker!", "Have to laugh at him, what a fool" and "Thickness personified. Don't these idiots know that whatever you do if you put it on social media it's out there for all to see."
Online readers also took aim at Watson's bath, which he is pictured bathing in topless surrounded by bubbles and £20 notes.
One said: "Roll on the floor laughing at the 99 quid bath from Wickes", while others added: "Looks like a bath tub in a council house", "Haha, look at his c**p bath! Should have spent some of that cash on home improvements" and "Should have spent some of that cash on a bigger bath."
West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson also got involved telling the Express & Star: "Hopefully the memory of his cash-filled bath and pink champagne will keep him warm at night while he spends the next seven years behind bars."
Watson's Instagram account has now been deleted after posts were appearing from his account up to Tuesday evening, despite being sentenced the previous Friday. The Ministry of Justice has been contacted.
He was jailed as part of a huge West Midlands Police drugs bust, with a total of 13 now spending time behind bars. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Richard Chapman, 22, Ellerton Walk, Park Village, Wolverhampton was sentenced to five years for his role in the ring while Adam Whiteley, 35, of Wheatsheaf Road, Oldbury was sentenced to eight years. The other 10 sentenced were from Birmingham and Nottingham, including ring leader Asmirald Miraka, 25, from Margaret Grove, Harborne, who was locked up for 16 years and three months.
It is not the first time Watson will serve time behind bars after he was convicted of death by dangerous driving a decade ago.
He was sentenced to five and a half years after the horror smash which killed 18-year-old Wolverhampton College student Jermaine Walker in November 2005.
Watson, who had no licence or insurance, pleaded guilty to death by dangerous as well as charges of failing to provide a specimen and assaulting a police officer.
After the crash, in which Wolverhampton Crown Court were told he was urged to slow down by Jermaine and two girls in the car, Sergeant Jon Jackson, from West Midlands Police said he showed not a 'single shred of remorse for what he did'.
