Stansted drug smuggler jailed
03.05.08
An Italian carpenter has been jailed for seven years after admitting attempting to smuggle over 30kg of cannabis and cocaine in to the UK via Stansted Airport.
Giuseppe Greco, 24, from Sardinia, arrived at Stansted on a flight from Genoa on January 16, Ipswich Crown Court heard. He had tried to abandon his luggage and leave the airport but was intercepted by officers from HM Revenue & Customs.
Both of his cases were locked and Mr Greco claimed to have lost the keys. He said that he only had clothes and books in them but when officers scanned the baggage they saw what appeared to be 33 rectangular packages inside.
The locks were forced and the tape wrapped packages removed along with a set of scales. Most of the packages contained cannabis resin, but two of them contained cocaine.
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