13 years for former England cricketer caught smuggling cocaine at Gatwick
20.05.09
Former England cricketer Chris Lewis has been jailed for 13 years after being caught trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain via Gatwick Airport. His co-accused, ex-basketball player Chad Kirnon, was given the same sentence at Croydon Crown Court today.
The pair were found guilty of carrying a liquid form of the drug into Gatwick on a flight from St Lucia on December 8 last year. Cans of fruit and vegetable juice seized by officials were found to contain dissolved cocaine with a street value of more than £140,000. Both men had denied a charge of smuggling Class A drugs and blamed the other.
Lewis, 41, of Bruce Road, Brent, north London, claimed to have been on holiday in St Lucia and that he was unaware his luggage contained the drugs. Kirnon, 27, of Carnegie Street, Islington, north London,was stopped by customs officers after returning to the UK on the same flight as Lewis. He told Customs officials that Lewis had a past history of drug smuggling, but had not been stopped in the past.
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