‘I had no idea £2.5m of coke was in my bag’

Borehamwood

A cosmetics salesman whose products made him ‘look ten years younger’ insists he had no idea two Sports Direct bags he was caught with contained £2.5m worth of cocaine. The drugs were allegedly smuggled into the UK from Holland hidden in the red wing weights on a Piper light aircraft piloted by Dutchman John Buwalda, 52. He allegedly delivered his cargo to Polish national Jan Polak, 61, at a Holiday Inn hotel near Rochester Airport in Kent. Buwalda had made…

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