Gatwick drug smugglers jailed
26.07.10
Two men have been jailed for a total of 16 years after being caught trying to smuggle £700,000 of cocaine into Gatwick Airport. Ashley Keane, 22, and Christopher Clifford, 28, both from Sheep Street in Bicester, were caught with drugs in their luggage after being stopped at the airport on Monday, May 3. They both admitted smuggling the class A drugs into the UK from Portugal and were jailed for eight years each at Croydon Crown Court.
The two men arrived at Gatwick on an easyJet flight from Lisbon. Both claimed they had been on holiday in Peru from April 7, before flying to Madrid, Spain, and then on to Portugal. Mr Clifford, a fork-lift driver, and Mr Keane, a roofer, were each carrying around three kilos of liquid cocaine, which were discovered in small bottles in their wash bags.The drugs were worth an estimated £700,000 on the street.
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