18m cannabis smuggler is jailed
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• A Dutch truck driver who was caught smuggling two-and-ahalf tonnes of cannabis into the UK through Dover has been jailed for nine years.
When Customs officers at Dover truck in February this year they found the drug surrounded by bags of fertiliser, Canterbury Crown Court heard last week.
Kiemeneii claimed that the fertilliser was destined for an industrial estate in Surrey; checks revealed that this estate does not exist.
Ian Stern. prosecuting, said Kiemeneij was carrying false documents indicating that the load was destined for Kimberly-Clark at an industrial estate at Newton Heath, Malden, Surrey—but the estate does not exist, and Kimberly-Clark never uses fertiliser.
Michael Lavers, for KiemeneU, who has no previous convictions, said he had agreed to bring in the cannabis because he was £2,000 in debt—he was to have been paid .25,000. Customs estimate the street value of the conopened Jim Kiemeneifs signment was about am.