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Driver loses jail appeal
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A TRUCK DRIVER who was caught as he tried to smuggle £1.2m worth of cocaine into the UK has lost an appeal against his 17-year prison sentence.
Vincent Holyoake of St Leonards, East Sussex was jailed by Canterbury Crown Court last November after he was convicted of trying to import 24kg of cocaine through Dover.
He claimed that he had stopped at a supermarket in France on the way back from the Netherlands to make some purchases before going to Customs control.
There, he said, he was approached by a man he had never met before to take some packages, which he believed contained money, to a lay-by in Dover.
Sitting at London's Appeal Court. Justice I.atham dismissed I lolyoake's argument that his con viction was unsafe: "It cannot be argued that the trial was not fair. The importation of Class A drugs always attracts severe penalties there are no grounds for interfering with this sentence and this application is refused."