 During the 1980s he became partners with Klaas Bruinsma in the Netherlands and was allegedly appointed as head of the drugs division of the Bruinsma organisation.Adkins was implicated in April 1990 in the murder in Spain of ex train robber Charles Wilson although this was never proven.Adkins was involved in a fight and shoot out with Bruinsma in the famous Amsterdam night club/brothel Yab Yum and his refusal to submit or back down to Bruinsma is widely believed to have directly led to his murder.