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Prison for drugs haulier

19th March 1992, Page 7
19th March 1992
Page 7
Page 7, 19th March 1992 — Prison for drugs haulier
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• A South London haulage contractor who smuggled cannabis into Britain among cargoes of cat litter has been jailed for three years.

John Smyth, who built up Smyth's Haulage into a successful business, was told by Judge Brian Pryor QC: "These were very serious crimes involving importations of cannabis with a potential street value of £3.25m."

The Inner London Crown Court heard that a warehouse used by Smyth in Charlton had been filled with cat litter imported from Holland, the cannabis and nearly 30,000 tablets of ecstasy.