A MANCHESTER MAN JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS FOR IMPORTI
A MANCHESTER MAN JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS FOR IMPORTING DRUGS
WORTH BETWEEN #4O,OOO AND #7O,OOO TODAY (FRIDAY) LOST HIS APPEALS
AGAINST HIS CONVICTION AND FOUR-YEAR SENTENCE.
THE LONDON APPEAL COURT HEARD GARY THOMAS, 26, OF DEVONSHIRE
STREET SOUTH, LONGSIGHT, HIRED A CAR IN WHICH DOVER CUSTOMS
OFFICERS FOUND THE DRUGS IN APRIL 1985.
SIX PACKETS OF AMPHETAMINE SULPHATE WERE FOUND HIDDEN HIND A
DASHBOARD PLASTIC GRILLE WHEN THE CAR, DRIVEN BY ANOTHER MAN ARRIVED
FROM CALAIS.
THOMAS HAD HIRED THE CAR IN MANCHESTER AND TRAVELLED IN IT TO
THE CONTINENT, BUT HE RETURNED ON A DIFFERENT FERRY, THE COURT WAS
TOLD.
DURING HIS TRIAL THE COURT WAS TOLD THAT AFTER THOMAS FOUND OUT
ABOUT THE DRUGS HE LEFT HTHE CAR AND MADE HIS OWN WAY BACK TO
ENGLAND.
BUT COMMENTED LORD JUSTICE WATKINS, ‘THE JURY DID NOT BELIEVE
THAT’.
HE ADDED: ‘HERE WERE TWO MEN WHO HAD PURPOSELY PARTED COMPANY
ON THE CONTINENT SO THEY COULD MORE EASILY DECEIEVE THE CUSTOMS’.
HE RECALLED THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE HAD SAID THE OTHER MAN,
THE DRIVER WAS HIRED AS THE COURIER FOR WHICH HE WAS PAID #2,OOO.
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