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The Cantabria Provincial Court handed down the sentence which dates from November 2016 after his arrest at the ferry terminal in Santander.
Sep 21, 2017 - 11:29 AM
Six years in prison and a fine of 200,357 € for a Briton who was caught with 15,000 ecstasy pills
The Cantabria Provincial Court handed down the sentence which dates from November 2016 after his arrest at the ferry terminal in Santander.
Sep 21, 2017 - 11:29 AM
The Briton was arrested by the National Police when disembarking from the ferry which had arrived at Santander and had left from Plymouth after searching his caravan which was on a trailer behind, and the drugs were found in a specially designed hidden compartment.
The agents had been warned by the British Police Intelligence Agency that a suspect had left Plymouth believed to be carrying an amount of a synthetic drugs.
The Cantabria Court did not believe the accused, who maintained at all times that he was unware of what he was transporting.
According to the sentence, when the agents told the driver to get out of his car, the now in custody seemed ‘very nervous and started to give contradictory answers’
After the Police took many statements, the Instruction Judge – in this oral case, realised his testimonies had collectively become ‘unbelievable’.
The judge underlined the hiding place ‘was well constructed’ and ‘to stop the odour and the drug detecting dogs, he had placed a layer of grease between and around the packets of pills’
The Court rejected the arguments of the Briton who claimed his intention was to first travel with his family and to transport the caravan, paid to do so by an unidentified person, different from the ownership of the vehicle.
‘All the indications show he was not travelling alone for pleasure, but had taken a calculated risk to transport drugs with his family unware’ singled the sentence.
And continued ‘Neither can we credit the third man had paid for his hotels, the ferry, petrol and a flight from Oporto to his home in the UK’
In consequence, the Court consider a crime against public health via drug trafficking had been committed, a count of importing dangerous substances, and the size of the consignment.
In addition to the prison term and the fine, the court ordered the drug to be decomposed with all the surrounding items, the caravan, trailer and vehicle had been used ‘as instruments of crime by trying to get the narcotic onto the illegal black market’
The sentence is not firm, and any appeal can be made to the Civil Hall of the Cantabria Superior Justice Tribunal.
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The agents had been warned by the British Police Intelligence Agency that a suspect had left Plymouth believed to be carrying an amount of a synthetic drugs.
The Cantabria Court did not believe the accused, who maintained at all times that he was unware of what he was transporting.
According to the sentence, when the agents told the driver to get out of his car, the now in custody seemed ‘very nervous and started to give contradictory answers’
After the Police took many statements, the Instruction Judge – in this oral case, realised his testimonies had collectively become ‘unbelievable’.
The judge underlined the hiding place ‘was well constructed’ and ‘to stop the odour and the drug detecting dogs, he had placed a layer of grease between and around the packets of pills’
The Court rejected the arguments of the Briton who claimed his intention was to first travel with his family and to transport the caravan, paid to do so by an unidentified person, different from the ownership of the vehicle.
‘All the indications show he was not travelling alone for pleasure, but had taken a calculated risk to transport drugs with his family unware’ singled the sentence.
And continued ‘Neither can we credit the third man had paid for his hotels, the ferry, petrol and a flight from Oporto to his home in the UK’
In consequence, the Court consider a crime against public health via drug trafficking had been committed, a count of importing dangerous substances, and the size of the consignment.
In addition to the prison term and the fine, the court ordered the drug to be decomposed with all the surrounding items, the caravan, trailer and vehicle had been used ‘as instruments of crime by trying to get the narcotic onto the illegal black market’
The sentence is not firm, and any appeal can be made to the Civil Hall of the Cantabria Superior Justice Tribunal.
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