Drug charge men part of highly organised gang, court told

Two men charged over a £1m (€1.2m) cannabis seizure in the North were members of a highly organised criminal gang, police claimed in court today.

Warren Arthur Martin, 36, from Ballygonney Road West, Moneymore, in Co Derry, and Aidan Joseph McPartland, 29, from Deramore Gardens, Belfast, appeared at the city’s magistrates court where they faced a string of drugs charges.