Jailed for handling artics
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• A Merseyside haulage contractor convicted of handling 140,000 worth of stolen tractive units and trailers has been jailed for two years.
Passing sentence, Judge David Lynch told Joseph Glanville: "I've had the opportunity to assess you over the nine days of your trial and you are a thoroughly dishonest man prepared to make your living in any way whatsoever" He said Glanville had previously served 12 years for drug trafficking; after leaving prison he became involved in counterfeit currency, "and now these offences involving property with a value of L40,000.
"You knew these items
were stolen," Lynch added. It was not that you were not careful enough about them."
At the beginning of the month a jury at Liverpool Crown court convicted Glanville of handling three stolen trailers and three stolen tractive units.
But it cleared him of three other similar charges, and was directed to return not-guilty verdicts on two other charges involving two tractive units.
Glanville, 53, of Albour Lane, Simonswood. Kirkby, denied all the charges.
Following his conviction, the court heard of the 12year jail term in 1984 for conspiracy to supply drugs, and a sentence of six months in 1994 for possess ing counterfeit currency.
During the trial the court heard that police raided the Hammond Road premises of Glanville's business, Port Logistics UK, on 5 April last year.
John Philpotts, prosecuting, said police found the stolen tractors and trailers at the yard on the Kirkby Industrial Estate.
They had been stolen from North-West companies between autumn 1995 and summer 1997, he added.
When interviewed Glanville said he had bought the tractors and trailers legitimately and in good faith.
Robert Meiklo, defending, said the jobs of Glanville's 18 staff would be very much at risk if he went to prison.