Watermelon stash worth 110m
10th October 2002, Page 8
10th October 2002
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"A monster haul" is how Customs officers have described the .£20m worth of heroin they found stashed in a truckload of watermelons at Dover last week.
Officers who searched the Turkish-registered vehicle after it arrived from Zeebrugge found the drugs concealed behind a false bulkhead in the refrigerated trailer.
Turkish driver Firket Azad has been charged with attempting to smuggle 300kg of heroin into the UK. On Monday 17 October) Dover magistrates remanded him in custody for seven days.