Courier firm manager ‘was heroin smuggler’

A courier firm manager smuggled heroin into the UK from the Netherlands in bogus deliveries of computer equipment, a court heard. Christopher Smith, 47, oversaw the arrival of monthly consignments of the drug in durable, watertight cases over a three year period, it is claimed. He was eventually caught ‘red-handed’ handing one case of heroin to smuggler Anthony O’Shea after being watched by surveillance officers, jurors were told. Smith, the former sales and general manager of Medex Couriers, is now…