Gilbert Bristol, the exporter who was accused in 2012 of trying to ship $2 billion in cocaine hidden in fish food bound for China, died at the Georgetown Hospital after a prolonged illness.
Sources confirmed to this newspaper yesterday, that Bristol died recently in hospital where he was a patient with a natural ailment. Efforts by Stabroek News to make contact with his relatives were unsuccessful.
Bristol, of 154 Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty, was remanded to prison when he was