Cocaine and cannabis were flown in with sweet potatoes

Three men who smuggled cocaine and cannabis worth £3.5m into the UK, hidden in a cargo of sweet potatoes, were jailed for a total of 41 years. Kashif Mushtaq, 38, Attiq Ur Rehman, 41, and Sarbjit Chumber, 48, were part of an organised gang dismantled by the National Crime Agency. Mushtaq was arrested in late 2018 after Met Police officers seized 35kg of cannabis from a car in Hackney, east London. The drugs had been wrapped in sealed packages within…