Truck driver on trial in €5.6m heroin case

A Dutch truck driver has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for importing €5.6m of heroin hidden in a shipment of flowers.

Jan Stuurmann (aged 41) of Curran Ard, Athy in Kildare has 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.

The Court will hear evidence that both trucks entered Dublin Port carrying large consignments of fresh tulips from Holland.