Courier service used in massive pot smuggle

A veteran drugs gang smuggled three-quarters of a ton of cannabis worth up to £2.1m into the UK from Spain using courier service DHL, a court heard Brothers Kevin Downes, 56, and John Downes, 57, Thomas Abrahams, 72, and Brian Chapman, 63, allegedly plotted to have the consignment delivered to the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. But minutes after the cargo arrived at an industrial unit on Wallend Farm in Minster on 30 September last year it was seized by…