Innocent victims?
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Iwas ashamed to read about the cocaine smuggling haulier who was imprisoned last week (CM 511 June).
I have been reading Commercial Motor for nine years and have been struck by how many drivers seem to fall into drug "smuggling" problems. Nearly all of them claim that they are innocent victims.
Yet here we have a man running a haulage company owning up to being a smuggler as well as an addict himself and two of his drivers who knew what they were carrying.
If they had been caught red-handed they would have claimed that they were set up, no doubt. So who are we to believe when we hear people like Fair Trials Abroad telling us that drivers here and there did not know what was in their loads?
You can no longer trust the honesty of a lot of drivers This is doing nothing for the increasingly small percentage of drivers who really are set up.
Darren O'Connor, Sheffield.