French jail another Brit for smuggling • A Doncaster owner-driver
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arrested in France last December has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined £1.5m for smuggling more than 500kg of cannabis.
Arthur Shipley was returning from Barcelona for Wakefieldbased Cresta Freight Services when he was arrested at the French border in Carcassone on 11 December (CM 8-14 Jan).
His distraught family say Shipley is coping well with the situation: they are now considering an appeal.
Shipley joins a growing number of British drivers who are languishing in foreign jails.
Earlier this year London driver Steffon Wapshott was sentenced to seven years in jail and fined £1.75m for smuggling 700kg of cannabis in his trailer (CM 5-11 Feb). Wapshott was arrested after a customs check at the French/Spanish border on 2 July after he collected a load including textiles and boots from Alicante in Spain. His appeal was rejected.
D Owner-driver Ron Beresford from Hemel Hempstead has been in prison near Alicante, Spain since being arrested in Valencia on suspicion of being a drug courier on 17 April. He is to be visited by his wife in the next fortnight.