11 years for Bristol Airport shoe drug smuggler
23.07.09
A drug smuggler who tried to bring more than £100,000 of cocaine in to the UK via Bristol Airport in the soles of his trainers has been jailed, the Mercury reports Spaniard Francisco Perez Becerra, 39, of Seville, was sentenced to 11 years at Bristol Crown Court for importing 6lb (2.8kg) of the drug, with an estimated street value of £112,000.
Mr Perez Becerra flew into Bristol from The Gambia, via Senegal and Brussels. He was intercepted by UK Border Agency detection officers at the airport on September 8 last year and an officer became suspicious about the weight of the trainers during a baggage search. X-rays of the shoes led to the find.
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