Blue movies were drugs
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• Macclesfield lorry driver 6 Robert Chapman, caught smuggling cannabis with a street value of £0.85m, told Chester Crown Court that he thought he was smuggling blue movies. Chapman, of Lowerfield Road, Macclesfield, and David Perry of Weston Square, Macclesfield, pleaded guilty to knowingly importing a prohibited substance.
The court was told that when Customs officers opened boxes in the front of Chapman's semi-trailer at Felixstowe Docks last March, they discovered a quarter of a tonne of cannabis resin. The deal had been set up by Perry's brother, who was still in Holland.
Chapman said that he had been paid £1,500 to deliver 12 boxes of "Dutch blue movies" to a sports shop in Macclesfield belonging to Perry He only agreed to deliver what he thought were pornographic films and magazines because he needed the money. He had absolutely no idea that the boxes contained drugs. It was the first time he had delivered items like that. He had been told that he was being offered a lot of money as the films were "masters" He was told that thousands of copies could be run off and that they could be sold at £60 each in sex shops.
Sentence has been adjourned for social inquiry reports.
ID A Bolton haulage contractor who imported nearly £2m-worth of cannabis resin from Spain in a road tanker's secret compartment last month lost his latest bid to appeal against his 11-year prison sentence.
Ronald Hennessey, 47, of Ashridge Close, Lostock was jailed in June 1990 when Preston Crown Court found him guilty on two counts of importing the drug for which he received concurrent terms of 11 and six years plus a confiscation order of £7,592.