Two more drivers face drug charges
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• The partners of two British lorry drivers held in a French jail on charges of smuggling a £7m load of cannabis in a trailer say they had to report them as missing persons to the police because nobody told them they had been arrested.
Nicky King, wife of imprisoned Steven King from Derbyshire, says her husband, who has now been jailed in Langenesse for four months, had been asked by his friend Wayne Franklin, also of Derbyshire, to carry out a job for a driver agency in May.
The job, says King, required Franklin and her husband to fly to Madrid, pick up a truck and trailer and bring it back to England. "We expected Steven back on Saturday 2 May but we heard nothing until the next Wednesday," she says.
King says she thought her husband was dead and only got to hear of his arrest bemuse she has a relation in the Derbyshire police force. "We heard nothing from the French or the Foreign Office," she adds.
Franklin and Steven King had been arrested after their truck was stopped and checked by French Customs officials.
Mrs King says no court date has yet been arranged for the two men—both are protesting their innocence.