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A WONDER WHAT SIR TREVOR HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS SINCE THEM ACT LIKE JAMAICANS IS THE CAUSE OF ALL THEM DRUGS PROBLEM.
Drug-smuggling pensioners jailed
(L-R) Wattie Soutter, Derek Mercer and Andrew Rowe
The gang placed the drugs in a bonded meat warehouse
Three pensioners involved in a £5m cannabis smuggling operation have been jailed.
They were part of a gang which imported cannabis from Holland hidden in frozen chicken imports.
Wattie Soutter, 68, of Rotherhithe, south-east London, described as the drug deal's broker, was sentenced to nine-and-a half years in jail.
Derek Mercer and Andrew Rowe, both 70, received eight and seven year sentences respectively.
Mercer, of South Norwood, south-east London, and Rowe, of Bethnal Green, east London, were found guilty last month by a Southwark Crown Court jury of knowingly being concerned in the smuggling of cannabis into the UK.
Soutter had pleaded guilty to the charge.
I suspect that at the age you are there is a bit of a devil-may-care attitude towards offending
Judge Martin Beddoe
The court heard mobile phone evidence clearly showed Soutter acted as a broker between the Dutch connection and the wholesale cannabis distribution operation in Britain.
Two others, both distributors, admitted the smuggling charge.
Patrick Maloney, 54, of Turquand Street, Southwark, south-east London, was sentenced to seven years, while Russ O'Cuneff, 51, of Glengarnock Avenue, Poplar, east London, was jailed for six years.
In sentencing, Judge Martin Beddoe said he "frankly failed" to see why he should take the ages of the pensioners into account.
The cannabis haul
There was evidence of 12 previous smuggling runs
"It can fairly be said the older someone gets the less excuse they have for getting involved in crime, particularly when it was planned and organised," he said.
"When you got involved in this you knew full well what the consequences would be if caught - a lengthy spell of imprisonment in your twilight years.
"I suspect that at the age you are there is a bit of a devil-may-care attitude towards offending."
The jury had been told the gang placed the drugs in a bonded meat warehouse in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, before delivering pallets to a haulage and storage company in Grays, Essex.
Andrew Marshall, prosecuting, said evidence of 12 previous smuggling runs had been discovered by investigators.
Police found 1.4 tonnes of cannabis in Mercer's warehouse and 60kg of the drug in Rowe's Volvo estate car.
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A WONDER WHAT SIR TREVOR HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS SINCE THEM ACT LIKE JAMAICANS IS THE CAUSE OF ALL THEM DRUGS PROBLEM.
Drug-smuggling pensioners jailed
(L-R) Wattie Soutter, Derek Mercer and Andrew Rowe
The gang placed the drugs in a bonded meat warehouse
Three pensioners involved in a £5m cannabis smuggling operation have been jailed.
They were part of a gang which imported cannabis from Holland hidden in frozen chicken imports.
Wattie Soutter, 68, of Rotherhithe, south-east London, described as the drug deal's broker, was sentenced to nine-and-a half years in jail.
Derek Mercer and Andrew Rowe, both 70, received eight and seven year sentences respectively.
Mercer, of South Norwood, south-east London, and Rowe, of Bethnal Green, east London, were found guilty last month by a Southwark Crown Court jury of knowingly being concerned in the smuggling of cannabis into the UK.
Soutter had pleaded guilty to the charge.
I suspect that at the age you are there is a bit of a devil-may-care attitude towards offending
Judge Martin Beddoe
The court heard mobile phone evidence clearly showed Soutter acted as a broker between the Dutch connection and the wholesale cannabis distribution operation in Britain.
Two others, both distributors, admitted the smuggling charge.
Patrick Maloney, 54, of Turquand Street, Southwark, south-east London, was sentenced to seven years, while Russ O'Cuneff, 51, of Glengarnock Avenue, Poplar, east London, was jailed for six years.
In sentencing, Judge Martin Beddoe said he "frankly failed" to see why he should take the ages of the pensioners into account.
The cannabis haul
There was evidence of 12 previous smuggling runs
"It can fairly be said the older someone gets the less excuse they have for getting involved in crime, particularly when it was planned and organised," he said.
"When you got involved in this you knew full well what the consequences would be if caught - a lengthy spell of imprisonment in your twilight years.
"I suspect that at the age you are there is a bit of a devil-may-care attitude towards offending."
The jury had been told the gang placed the drugs in a bonded meat warehouse in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, before delivering pallets to a haulage and storage company in Grays, Essex.
Andrew Marshall, prosecuting, said evidence of 12 previous smuggling runs had been discovered by investigators.
Police found 1.4 tonnes of cannabis in Mercer's warehouse and 60kg of the drug in Rowe's Volvo estate car.
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