11 years for Birmingham Airport drugs smuggler
16.03.09
A drugs smugglers who tried to bring almost £250,000 of cocaine in to the UK via Birmingham Airport has been jailed for 11 years. Polish national Krzysztof Zoledziejewski was caught with more than five kilos of drugs packed into his suitcase and laptop bag. Customs officers told the court that the drugs were valued at over £235,000, adding that this would have doubled or even trebled once ‘cut’ by dealers and sold on the streets.
The 25-year-old, who used to work as an assembly line worker for a car manufacturer in Poland, was stopped when he arrived on a flight from Cancun, Mexico last October. Mr Zoledziejewski of Gorzow, Wielkopolski, was charged with drug smuggling offences under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979. He was jailed for 11 years at Birmingham Crown Court after pleading guilty.
In sentencing the judge said: ‘I am not persuaded you are wholly remorseful. It took a good deal of strength of character to do what you did and your only remorse is that you were caught. You were a guest in our country and you abused our trust, we don’t take kindly to that.’
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