‘Banana man’ James Stevenson gets 20 years

A drug baron who was one of Britain’s most wanted men has been jailed for 20 years for smuggling £76m worth of cocaine into the country in a cargo of bananas. James ‘Iceman’ Stevenson, 59, arranged the consignment of nearly a tonne of the narcotic from Ecuador to Glasgow Fruit Market Ltd in Kennedy Street. The illicit cache was seized at the Port of Dover in September 2020 but it took officers three days to uncover all 119 packages of…

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