Drug-runner sentenced for smuggling nearly £1m of cocaine in electric | UK | News
He was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for trying to miss about £ 1 million cocaine in England hidden in a electric wheelchair. 56 -year -old Casimiro de Lemos Francisco tried to blink the officials he was disabled because he driving the electric wheelchair from Manchester Airport on Sunday, March 30 this year.
He came from Bridgetown in Barbados, but when the border forces were stopped by officers, he said he was in the country for two days to see a friend. Francisco’s wheelchair was scanned by the border forces officials, and when the officers asked him what was hidden inside, he said, orum I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my friend. ” He replied. Hidden in the back and the seat, 12 kg weighing 11 packs of cocaine worth £ 880,000.
There was a tracking device to follow the progress of the crime group behind the import, hidden in the battery compartment.
De Lemos Francisco from Guimaraes in the north of Portugal, admitted that he used A class drugs in Manchester Crown Court last week and was imprisoned today.
“Organized crime groups will try everything possible to kidnap drugs, but using a wheelchair and a disabled man who acts like a disabled man.
“NCA works with partners at home and abroad to fight with class A drug threat and to protect the British people.”
In a separate investigation at the beginning of this week, 71 -year -old Ronald Lord in Canada, Montreal, was imprisoned for six years after trying to smuggle £ 600,000 cocaine in England, hidden in Mobility Scooter. This year, he was stopped at Gatwick Airport in February and stopped with an A class with a class Hidden in a space on the back panel of the seat with 8 kg.
