American caught smuggling £800k of pot gets just 18 months after he claims he ‘did not know it was illegal in the UK’

An American security guard caught smuggling more than £800,000 worth of cannabis into the UK apologised to a judge and said he did not know it is illegal here. Xavier Meeks, 27, was found with 64 wrapped packages of the drug inside two suitcases at Heathrow Airport on 27 December. Rav Johal, prosecuting, said when challenged by Customs officials he ‘denied packing them in the suitcases and was unable to open the lock on the suitcases. ‘There was 29.4kg of…