Dutchman jailed after bogus ambulance firm is caught smuggling drugs into UK

A Dutchman who set up a bogus ambulance firm to smuggle “truly colossal” amounts of heroin and cocaine into the UK has been jailed for 24 years.

Olof Schoon pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to sneak an estimated £1.2bn worth of Class A drugs into Britain using “a fleet” of specially-adapted ambulances.

The married father of three showed no emotion in the dock as a judge also jailed two other men involved in the 14-month conspiracy.