“Today, the Sentencing Council is publishing a new guideline for judges and magistrates on the sentencing of drug offences.”
Sentencing Council, 24th January 2012
“Foreign drug-dealer and gun criminal Andre James has been allowed to stay in Britain partly because he would return to a life of crime if he was deported.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who hid more than 2kg of cocaine in his Devon property has been jailed for nine years.”
BBC News, 16th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Drug dealers from Liverpool and London who plotted to flood the UK with £4bn of cocaine have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Barrister Cherie Blair has been criticised by the court of appeal for not jailing a cocaine smuggler when sitting as a judge at a crown court. Appeal judge Lord Justice Pitchford suggested that Blair’s decision to give Lee Williams a 12-month suspended sentence, following a trial at Isleworth crown court earlier this year, was ‘remarkable’.”
The Guardian, 2nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former drugs counsellor who visited schools to warn youngsters about the dangers has been jailed for 12 years for his role in a £1.3 million heroin smuggling plot.”
The Independent, 2nd August 2011
“Two men from Hull have been jailed for their parts in an operation to smuggle heroin with a street value of £13m in packets of baby powder.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is today launching a strategy to crack down on serious and organised criminals. Profiling organised criminals, disrupting the finances of criminal networks and establishing a new organised crime co-ordination centre are among the range of actions set out in the new strategy, announced by Home Office minister James Brokenshire today.”
Home Office, 28th July 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Two men have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years for their roles in a ‘simple but ingenious’ plot to bring millions of pounds worth of heroin into the UK disguised as baby powder.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Gang members who planned to flood south Wales with drugs worth £50m have been jailed for a total of almost 70 years.”
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BBC News, 17th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Anyone caught smuggling drugs into prison should face longer ‘deterrent’ sentences, the country’s most senior judge has said.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A PR consultant from London has been jailed for 7 years for attempting to smuggle more than £500,000 of high purity cocaine into the UK through Heathrow Airport.”
UK Border Agency. 7th June 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Five men who plotted to collect 255kg of high-purity cocaine in the English Channel and import it into the UK have been convicted and handed prison sentences totalling 104 years.”
UK Border Agency, 3rd June 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Police today pledged to crack down on corrupt prison officers after a male officer was jailed for smuggling drugs to inmates.”
The Independent, 28th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK drugs baron Curtis Warren intends to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against his conviction for importing cannabis into Jersey.”
BBC News, 16th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man from London has been sentenced to 7 years in prison at Canterbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to heroin smuggling.”
UK Border Agency, 11th May 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A 64-year-old man from Corringham, Essex has been sentenced to prison for 9 years and 4 months after pleading guilty to trying to import heroin and cocaine into the UK.”
UK Border Agency, 31st March 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Drug runners and small–scale dealers could escape prison even if caught with a 50–gram bag of cocaine or heroin or dozens of Ecstasy pills, under planned new guidance for courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of Britain’s most notorious drug dealers, Curtis Warren, has lost a legal battle that would have led to his conviction being overturned.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two members of a drug trafficking gang have been given prison sentences totalling 22 years for smuggling millions of pounds’ worth of cannabis into the UK.”
UK Borders Agency, 16th February 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
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