'Arrogant' ambulance drug smugglers pressed on with plan after being stopped

The Dutch ring-leaders of an audacious operation to bring huge quantities of drugs into the UK using fake ambulances had a run-in with British border officials the day before their arrest but pressed on with their plan.

On their final run, Leonardus Bijlsma and Olof Schoon were stopped at the Channel Tunnel entrance in France by UK Border Force officers who found what prosecutors described as a “drug dealer’s list” in the boot of the men’s car.