Drug trial of Dutch truck driver collapses

The trial of Dutch truck driver accused of attempting to import €5.6m of heroin hidden in a shipment of flowers has collapsed following problems with the evidence.

Jan Stuurmann (aged 40) of Curran Ard, Athy in Kildare had pleaded not guilty to five counts of possessing and importing the drugs with another truck driver at a customs warehouse on Castleforbes Road, Dublin 1 on December 16, 2008.