French hold cell on drug driver in allegations
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• A 32-year-old driver with Dewsbury-based Sewell Distribution is being held in a French prison on suspicion of trying to smuggle .Z1 million. worth of cannabis into the UK in his trailer.
David Jackson, of Liversedge in West Yorkshire, has been held in a police cell in Calais for the past month after his wagon was stopped and checked by customs officials, says his brother-in-law Shaun EdwardsConnor.
Edwards-Connor says Jackson has not been charged and his case is to be reviewed on 1 September. Jackson is pleading with relatives not to let him "rot in jail".
Jackson missed his daughter's eighth birthday last week but is being kept positive in jail through the help of an Englishman called John. "He is making David exercise and read," says Edwards-Connor.
Roger Swithenbank, a spokesperson for Sewell Distribution, confirms that drugs were found in a sealed container Jackson had picked up in Paris which contained goods from Spain, Italy and Holland. "David Jackson has worked with us for eight years of exemplary service. There is no reason to believe he had anything to do with this."
Edwards-Connor says he hopes to take Jackson's fiancée and three sisters over to France as soon as possible to see him_ "We are trying to help him by giving him money to pay for soap and shoes," he says.