Drugs sentences
22nd April 1993, Page 19
22nd April 1993
Page 19
Page 19, 22nd April 1993
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Macclesfield lorry driver Robert Chapman has been sent to prison for five years for smuggling drugs into the UK hidden in a semi-trailer. His accomplice David Perry was sentenced to eight years when the two men appeared at Knutsford Crown Court.
Chapman, of Lowerfield Road, Macclesfield, and Perry, of Weston Square, Macclesfield, pleaded guilty.
The court heard that when customs officers opened boxes discovered in the front of Chapman's trailer at Felixstowe Docks last March, they found a quarter of a tonne of cannabis resin worth 4855,000. Chapman had said that he had been paid £1,500 to deliver 12 boxes of what he thought were Dutch blue movies to a sports shop in Macclesfield belonging to Perry (CM11-17 March).