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Guy Stanton worked undercover for HM Customs and Excise for more than a decade.

Guy Stanton ended up going to the pub with the two criminals and met his wife six hours later.

Guy Stanton's wife Jo got off at the next stop with their four-year-old daughter to protect his cover.

Undercover customs officer Guy Stanton was off duty with his family on a London Tube train when he spotted two members of a dangerous criminal gang.

Guy Stanton had a full nervous breakdown after leaving the job.

None of the Beta operatives were ever killed in the field.

Guy Stanton was involved in a gun battle on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and hid under a car.

Other operatives sent Guy Stanton postcards from South America to make him appear as a real drugs lord.

Guy Stanton was set up with a council flat in Tower Hamlets as part of his cover.

Guy Stanton's 'Legend' was a London gangster with a brief to infiltrate the capital's drug gangs.

Guy Stanton has had leukaemia for 27 years, bowel cancer, liver cancer, a stroke on his 66th birthday, and broke his neck last year.

A new six-part Netflix drama titled 'Legends' stars Tom Burke as Guy Stanton and Steve Coogan as Don Clarke.