Able bodied man tried to smuggle coke in electric wheelchair

A Portuguese airline passenger who tried to smuggle nearly £1 million worth of cocaine into the UK in an A Portuguese airline passenger who tried to smuggle nearly £1 million worth of cocaine into the UK in an electric wheelchair has been jailed for nearly seven years. Casimiro De Lemos Francisco, 56, rode the mobility scooter through Manchester Airport on 30 March after arriving from Bridgetown, Barbados. He was stopped by Border Force officers and the wheelchair was scanned. De…

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