Jail for the skunk n’ tomato smugglers

A father-of-three who smuggled £450,000 worth of cannabis through Dover in cans of tinned tomatoes has been jailed. Gary Butters, 55, set up a bogus fruit and vegetable importer called ‘Nezzo’ to cover his tracks, before the lorry was stopped at the UK border on 29 January. Along with two others, Butters arranged for a lorry to pick up 273 tomato tins full of top quality skunk weed in Barcelona. The truck then drove through Europe, crossing the channel on…