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Drugs raid leads to 22-year sentence for Surrey haulier
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A jailed haulier's family are fighting to clear his name in what they say is a 'horrendous miscarriage of justice'. David Harris reports.
THE FAMILY OF a haulier convicted of conspiring to supply cocaine say he is innocent and they plan to prove it.
Geoff Hyde. trading as Hyde Transport, of Howard Road. Effingham,Surrey,wasjailed for 22 years last week by Inner London Crown Court. The prosecution followed a raid on his haulage yard in Chertsey where the cocaine was found in a truck bringing lettuces from Spain.
Hyde's family and supporters say he allowed the truck to use the yard because he believed it had faulty brakes which needed fixing. and had no knowledge of the drugs.
One of the difficulties for Hyde's defence was that he initially lied to police about how the truck came to be in his yard. His son-in-law Paul Dietrich. says Hyde lied because he panicked when he realised what had been found on the truck.
"This has been a horrendous miscarriage of justice and we as a family are refusing to accept it.he adds. The criminal justice system has failed before and it has failed now. Geoff is an innocent man. Our fight to clear his name will continue for as long as it takes."