Pensioner jailed for smuggling cocaine worth over £600,000 in mobility scooter | UK | News
A retirement has been imprisoned for six years, trying to miss more than £ 600,000 cocaine in England, which is hidden in Mobility Scooter. The National Crime Agency officers stopped at the Gatwick Airport on February 7, 2025, and after the 71 -year -old Ronald Lord in Canada began to investigate. He claimed that he was on a seven -day holiday to Barbados and then a ride to England.
However, the boundary forces officials, while trying to pass through customer, the X -ray pulled the X -ray and the A class, which was stored in a space in the back panel of the seat, found eight kilos of class A drug. NCA experts valued about £ 640,000 at the street -level prices.
Oap said he didn’t know how he entered the inspectors and rejected any information. However, after a body search, a screw from the panel was found hidden in his pocket and provided vital evidence to associate it with the crime.
The investigation team also made checks with airlines and found that he had lied his time in Barbados and spent only three days before traveling to England.
During a hearing in Croydon Crown Court last month, Lord adopted charges of A -class drug trafficking, and last Friday was sentenced to six years in prison in the same court.
Richard Wickham, a senior research assistant, said: “Organized crime groups need smugglers such as Lord for A -class drugs, and they are sold by gangs dealing with violence and exploitation for a great profit.
“Obviously, he thought it would be less target for law enforcement officers because he was retired. He was wrong, and I hope that the case sends a message to anyone who would consider doing the same thing.
“NCA, who works with partners such as Border Force, is determined to do our best to target the people who are in the hands of criminal gangs and to help them to target them.”
