Lawrence suspect ‘was pot smuggling mastermind’

Former Stephen Lawrence murder suspect Jamie Acourt masterminded a nationwide cannabis dealing plot with his brother, a court heard. Acourt, 42, and brother Neil, 43, allegedly headed a gang moving ‘huge quantities’ of cannabis resin between London and the north east between 2014 and 2016. Jamie fled to Spain in 2016 after police arrested several suspects, including Neil’s father-in-law Jack Vose, 65, in South Shields, jurors heard. But when officers went to Jamie’s home in Bexley, southeast London he had…