UK national jailed in €600,000 cocaine case

A British national has been jailed for six years for transporting more than €600,000 of cocaine to Ireland in a lorry load of quilts.

UK national jailed in €600,000 cocaine case
Thu, 15 Jan, 2009 - 17:21

A British national has been jailed for six years for transporting more than €600,000 of cocaine to Ireland in a lorry load of quilts.

Naveed Aslam (aged 31) of Newington Avenue, Manchester pleaded guilty to transporting the 8.83kg of cocaine to Killane’s Furniture Megastore outside Lusk, Co Dublin on September 14, 2006.

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