Transport manager was doing eight years in jail
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• A Leeds haulier wlicise nominated transport manager is serving an eight-year prison sentence for drug smuggling has lost his 0-licence.
Robert Campbell, trading as 13ritannia Transport Services, held a three-vehicle international licence. He appeared before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Homer at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Gerry Docherty said transport manager Terence Connell was in detention following his arrest by HM Customs. When Docherty questioned Campbell in August, Campbell had told him that Connell was still carrying out his duties as transport manager and that he had spoken to him on the telephone in the past few weeks. Docherty pointed out that Connell was in fact in prison.
Admitting that he had lied to Docherty, Campbell said he had been off work for seven months due to ill-health and had lied to keep the only wagon he still had running. If that vehicle had been parked up he would have lost his only customer. Carless said that desperate men did desperate things and Campbell had been a desperate man who had "lied through his teeth".
Giving notice that he also proposed to disqualify Campbell from holding a licence indefinitely. Horher said it was clear that he had used Campbell as a front.