He was cutting keys – and cocaine

A locksmith was caught with £1.5million worth of cocaine stashed in a secret compartment behind key cutting equipment in his van, a court heard. Alex Guest, 40, was stopped by officers from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command while driving his work van southbound on the M11 in Redbridge, east London last 20 April. Officers searched discovered an elaborate hide with a hidden compartment concealed within a partition wall of the vehicle. The compartment was operated by hydraulic arms and hidden…

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