Cleared of jail house cocaine smuggling

A deaf man who was alleged to have stashed drugs in his trousers and smuggled them into a prison wiped away tears as he was cleared of wrongdoing. Gerrard Clinton was said to have duped security officers to get three wraps of cocaine into HMP Thameside on the sniffer dogs’ day off in October last year. But after four hours and 45 minutes of deliberations at Woolwich Crown Court, a jury of six men and six women cleared the 57-year-old…