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Jailed But haulier pleads his case from French hellhole
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h. YORKSHIRE HAULIER ailed in France for allegedly .muggling £500.000 worth of cantabis has written to CM protestng his innocence.
The drug was found in Paul Watson's load of pottery when he vas stopped by French Customs in 11le in September. He had agreed o take the trailer to Belgium as a .a your (CM 8 January).
Watson writes that he is just a 'hardworking honest businessnan"who is too generous. He adds: 'I am locked up here 24 hours a day, ;even days a week.The prison is full )f drug dealers and I have been subected to physical and racial abuse. Ile food here is terrible and I am osing weight fast. -I still have many hurdles to jump to convince the French authorities that they are holding the wrong man. My feelings of despair, being terrified and anxious, have turned to anger as to how people can be held in these horrific conditions. I don't have much money, but we will spend every penny to fight and prove to this judicial system that am innocent. Unlike in the UK. in France it's 'guilty until proven innocent'.
"I hope that the people who read this article will understand and absorb what kind of treatment goes on behind closed doors in countries that are in the EU."
Watson could be held without charge for two years; his first hearing is scheduled for this month.