‘No regrets’ says Howard Marks on inoperable cancer

Notorious former drug smuggler and author Howard Marks has been diagnosed with inoperable bowel cancer, he announced at the weekend.

The Oxford graduate, 69, said he had “no regrets” about a life which saw him mingle with A-listers from the entertainment world and spend seven years in jail after being convicted of serious drugs offences.

Marks, also known as Mr Nice, told the Observer: “I’ve come to terms with it in my own way — which for me was about learning how to cry.