Liquid coke smuggler looking at years behind bars

Wanstead

  A drug smuggler is facing more than a decade behind bars after he became the first dealer to import pink ‘liquid cocaine’ into the UK. Errol Watson, 54, admitted his role after more than 25kg of the drug worth £2 million was discovered inside three oil filters at Gatwick Airport. The novel method foiled X-ray machines, but a bright pink viscous liquid shot out as customs officials drilled into one of the aluminium cylinders housed between hollow tubes. Prosecutor…

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