Trucker hid cocaine in Kardashian thongs

A Polish trucker smuggled £7.2m worth of cocaine into the UK hidden in a consignment of Kim Kardashian thongs, a court heard. Jakub Jan Konkel, 40, was stopped by Border Force officers at the Port of Harwich in Essex as he arrived on a ferry from the Hook of Holland last September. Konkel’s HGV was carrying 28 pallets of Skims thongs and bodysuits and clothing but x-rays of the truck revealed a specially constructed hide in the skin of the…