HUGE QUANTITIES OF HEROIN WERE SMUGGLED INTO AMERI

HUGE QUANTITIES OF HEROIN WERE SMUGGLED INTO AMERICA BY
COURIERS WEARING WOMEN’S GIRDLES, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD TODAY

TUESDAY.

AND THE ‘MR BIG’ BEHIND THE ORGANISATION WAS BRITISH
BUSINESSMAN PAUL DYE, SAID PROSECUTING COUNSEL MR DEREK SPENCER, QC.

‘HE MASTERMINDED THE OPERATION FROM THE UK, WORKING THROUGH
SUBORDINATES AND USUALLY KEEPING WELL AWAY FROM THE HEROIN HIMSELF.

‘
DYE, 41, DIRECTOR OF GOLDEN FALCON LTD.

, WAS SAID TO HAVE PAID
#97,000 CASH FOR HIS HOME AT MEADOWCROFT, THE POYNINGS, RICHINGS

PARK, IVER, BUCKS.

‘AND HE WAS OFTEN TO BE SEEN TRAVELLING IN AN XJS JAGUAR CAR’
ADDED MR SPENCER.

‘OVER TWO AND HALF YEARS THE GANG SMUGGLED MILLIONS OF POUNDS
WORTH OF HEROIN FROM PAKISTAN TO THE U.

S.

WHERE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE
GANG HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED.

‘
A PAKISTANI COURIER WOULD ARRIVE AT HEATHROW AIRPORT,
AMSTERDAM OR FRANKFURT WITH UP TO THREE KILOS OF THE DRUG CONCEALED

IN THE GIRDLE.

IT WAS THEN TRANSFERRED IN THE TRANSIT LOUNGE TO A BRITISH
COURIER WHO TOOK IT ON THE SECOND LEG TO AMERICA ‘USING THE SAME
METHOD OF A LADY’S CORSET’ COUNSEL CONTINUED.

DYE’S ‘RIGHT HAND MAN’ IN BRITAIN WAS 30 YEAR OLD ELECTRICIAN,
CLIVE WILLIAMSON, OF GAYHURST COURT, CANBERRA DRIVE, NORTHOLT,

MIDDLESEX, THE JURY WAS TOLD
‘HIS JOB WAS TO BOOK AIRLINE TICKETS FOR COURIERS, SHOP FOR
CORSETS AND OTHER SMUGGLING PARAPHERNALIA, ACT AS A MINDER FOR
COURIERS – AND SOMETIMES SUPERVISE THE ACTUAL TRANSFER IN THE TRANSIT

LOUNGE BETWEEN THE COURIERS.

‘
UNEMPLOYED LORRY DRIVER DAVID MILLARD, 37, OF WATERGALE,
BRETON ESTATE, PETERBOROUGH, HAD TWICE TRAVELLED TO AMERICA CARRYING
CONSIGNMENTS OF HEROIN, SAID COUNSEL.

‘HE ALSO WENT ON ONE OCCASION TO PAKISTAN TO GET HEROIN AS A
FIRST-LEG COURIER BUT HE ”BOTTLED OUT’ AND RETURNED WITHOUT IT.

‘

MR SPENCER TOLD THE JURY THAT MILLARD’S 36 YEAR OLD WIYYLVIA,

HAD BEEN CAUGHT AT NEW YORK’S JOHN F.

KENNEDY AIRPORT IN MAY
LAST YEAR CARRYING THREE KILOS OF HEROIN IN A GIRDLE AND WAS STILL IN

CUSTODY THERE.

ALSO ARRESTED IN THE CUSTOMS BUST WERE BREAD SALESMAN PETER
DAVIS, 30, OF GLYNFIELD ROAD, HARLESDEN, WHO ALLEGEDLY MADE TWO
JOURNEYS TO AMERICA AS A COURIER AND ONE TO FRANKFURT.

NEAR HIM IN THE DOCK WAS HIS FRIEND, PAUL MURPHY, 30, A
PAINTER, OF ELMWOOD HOUSE, ALLSOULS AVENUE, HARLESDEN,

LONDON DESCRIBED AS ‘A POTENTIAL COURIER’.

MR SPENCER SAID MURPHY HAD GONE TO FRANKFURT ON ONE OCCASION
TO COLLECT A CONSIGNMENT OF THE DRUG FROM THE PAKISTANI COURIER ‘BUT
THE MEETING WAS NOT A SUCCESS AND HE FLEW BACK WITHOUT MAKING
CONTACT’.

AMERICAN POLICE HAD ALSO ARRESTED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE US –
MOST OF THEM BRITISH CITIZENS.

THEY INCLUDED GRAHAM ELLIS, 31, OF HEADLEY ROAD, WHITTON,
MIDDLESEX, AND HIS FORMER NEIGHBOUR JOHN HERRIDGE WHO HAD GONE TO

LIVE IN THE US.

HERRIDGE, ALIAS BERRIDGE, ALIAS STEED OR JOHN PAGE, HAD
STARTED AS A COURIER AND A ‘MINDER’ SOMETIMES TRAVELLING ‘SHOTGUN’ ON

THE TRIP TO AMERICA, SAID COUNSEL.

HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED WITH MRS MILLARD AT JOHN F KENNEDY
AIRPORT ON MAY 14 LAST YEAR.

THE JURY HEARD THAT ELLIS, WHO HAD TAKEN CONSIGNMENTS OF
HEROIN TO THE US IN DECEMBER, 1984, AND FEBRUARY LAST YEAR, HAD
ALREADY PLEADED GUILTY TO DRUGS CHARGES.

DYE, WILLIAMSON, DAVIS, MURPHY, MILLARD AND 27 YEAR OLD
PAKISTANI NAZIM AHMED, VARIOUSLY DENY CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY TO

SMUGGLE OR SMUGGLING.

‘THIS WAS A GANG OF INTERNATIONAL HEROIN TRAFICKERS WHO FOR
TWO AND AHALF YEARS SMUGGLED MILLIONS OF POUNDS WORTH OF HEROIN FROM
PAKISTAN TO THE U.

S.

‘ CONTINUED MR SPENCER.

THE JURY WAS SHOWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF AHMED WEARING THE GIRDLE

OF HEROIN HE HAD ON WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AT HEATHTHROW AIRPORT IN

APRIL LAST YEAR.

‘THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MORE ELOQUENT THAN ANY WORDS I CAN
USE,’ HE SAID.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY).

ENDS