Pensioner cleared of coke importation

A pensioner has been cleared of importing thousands of pounds worth of cocaine into the country from Colombia by hiding it inside car parts. Midel Lema Correa, 75, was arrested after Border Force officers at Germany’s Leipzig Airport intercepted a parcel from Medellin containing six car engine pistons last 18 September. The package had been addressed to someone called Raul Gonzalez Gonzalez at a flat in Stamford Hill, north London. Field tests indicated traces of cocaine and x-rays revealed each…