Man who tried to smuggle £1m of cocaine inside wheelchair is jailed
A man trying to hide the drugs in an electric wheelchair by hiding the drugs to England about £ 1 million, trying to miss a cocaine.
With a branded movement by the researchers as “hate ,, the non -disabled Casimiro de Lemos Francisco passed the Manchester Airport in a wheelchair loaded with drugs on March 30th.
When the 56 -year -old Portugal was stopped by the national border force, he told officers that he visited the country for two days to see a friend after flying from Bridgetown in Barbados.
Later, his wheelchair was scanned and when he was questioned about what is inside, he said: “I don’t know, my friend will have to ask.”
The officers discovered 11 packs of cocaine, hidden in the back and sofa, 12 kg and £ 880,000 worth of £ 880,000.
A tracking device used by the crime group behind the operation was also confidential in the battery compartment.
Following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation, De Lemos Francisco from Guimaraes, north of Portugal, accepted A class Drug trafficking in Manchester Crown Court last week.
He was sentenced to six years nine months in prison on Thursday.
Charles Lee, a senior research assistant, said: “Organized crime groups will try everything possible to kidnap drugs, but it is particularly disgusting to use a wheelchair and a man who pretends to be disabled.
“NCA works with partners at home and abroad to fight with class A drug threat and to protect the British people.”
At the beginning of this week, in a separate investigation, 71 -year -old Ronald Lord from Montreal in Canada was imprisoned for six years after trying to miss £ 600,000 cocaine to England hidden in the 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.
