General Article Gang jailed for drugs smuggling through the UK and Ireland

Topic Selected: Drugs Book Volume: 444

Four men who smuggled drugs from the Netherlands to the UK and Ireland have been sentenced to a total of more than 53 years in prison after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

Anthony Terry, 49, from Wolverhampton, was head of the organised crime group, orchestrating an importation of £1.6 million of cocaine from the Netherlands to England, and then across by ferry to Northern Ireland.

NCA officers seized the drugs, which had been hidden in fuel tanks transported within a van, when i...

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