Undercover policeman drove smuggling truck
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• An undercover police officer posing as a lorry driver smashed a drug-smuggling ring using trucks to move heroin to the UK from Belgium. Brothers Mark Anderson, of Selby Grove. and James Anderson, of Five Ways, both in Birmingham, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court last week to charges of smuggling the drugs with a street value of £700,000.
The undercover officer was introduced to James Anderson in June 1995 as part of a joint operation between police and Customs & Excise. The two met later that year at a truckstop in Lochram. Belgium, where the officer was given a bag containing the heroin. On arrival in the UK, he drove to a pre-arranged pick-up point at Cauley service station on the M6 where police swooped after the hand-over took place.
Mark Anderson was jailed for two years and his brother awaits sentencing.
17 The Foreign Office is refusing to name a British lorry driver held in jail in Seville. Spain, after being arrested last week for alleged drug-smuggling.