24 h. ago £1.3m cannabis haul recovered after police raid building in Greenock

Five men aged between 17 and 50 have since appeared in court in connection.

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6 d. ago The Prosecutor review – Donnie Yen leads mashup of legal drama and action flick

Suited and booted, Yen turns to role as public prosector cum ass-kicking vigilante as a late-stage career recalibrationDeveloped by China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate and directed by butt-kicking luminary Donnie Yen, The Prosecutor is a bizarre mashup of courtroom procedural and action flick; it is just as keen on lionising due process and the “shining light” of Chinese justice as it is on reducing civic infrastructure to smithereens in several standout bouts. But Yen, who looks undeniably good in a suit, is more convincing on his habitual fisticuff grounds than the jurisprudential ones.Yen plays Fok, a one-time hotshot cop who – leaving the force after some over-zealous policing – decides to man the “final gate” of justice and become a public prosecutor. Like a low-carb Perry Mason with years of Brazilian jiu-jitsu behind him, trouble keeps knocking on his door. Suspecting that a young drug smuggler (Mason Yung) whose case he is assigned has pled guilty to get his higher-ups of...

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9 d. ago Drugs mule caught with £1m cannabis haul 'stuffed in suitcases' at Cairnryan port

Chace Cappellie tried to traffick the class B drug via his vehicle from a Stena Line ferry from Belfast to Cairnryan.

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1 week ago Why Brits are 'flavour of the month' for drug smuggler gangs: The pensioners and glam influencers recruited as drug mules on promise of fast cash and luxury holidays

Several Brits, mostly glamorous young women, are being recruited into the murky world of drug smuggling which has left them facing lengthy sentences or even the death penalty.

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2 w. ago Drug smugglers caught at Glasgow Airport with £600k cannabis haul jailed

Jamaal Darbasie and George Manton had flown to Scotland from Canada with the drugs haul.

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2 w. ago Woman caught with £89k worth of cannabis after abandoning suitcase at Glasgow Airport

Shauna Eburne claimed she didn't know what was inside the suitcase.

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3 w. ago Police make dire Charlotte May Lee vow after former TUI flight attendant's 'record cannabis haul'

Charlotte May Lee was arrested after stepping off SriLankan Airlines Flight UL 405 at Bandaranaike International Airport after staff allegedly discovered a stash of synthetic "kush" cannabis

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3 w. ago How the British girl caught with record cannabis haul in Sri Lanka is telling police it's all the fault of a mystery man called Dan she met on a beach

Sri Lankan Airlines Flight UL 405 had barely left the runway before the 21-year-old part-time beautician from Surrey slapped on a hydrating in-flight facial mask and stuck in her earphones.

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3 w. ago Alleged drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee 'besotted with mystery man Rocko' in Thailand

Friends of alleged British drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee said she was besotted with a man named 'Rocko' before she was arrested in Sri Lanka, accused of carring £1m of cannabis

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3 w. ago Charlotte May Lee: 'Drug smuggler' was besotted with 'mystery man Rocko' in Thailand

Friends of alleged British drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee said she was besotted with a man named 'Rocko' before she was arrested in Sri Lanka, accused of carring £1m of cannabis

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3 w. ago All we know about Brit 'drug smuggler' Charlotte May Lee's jail hell as spicy prison meals make her sick

Former TUI stewardess, Charlotte May Lee, has been arrested in Sri Lanka and accused of smuggling £1.2 million of drugs into the country – here is everything we know

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3 w. ago Brit 'drug smuggler' says she is being set up as she speaks for the first time from behind bars

Charlotte May Lee, 21, insists she has been set up as she had "no idea" there were drugs in her luggage when she set off from Bangkok and insists the drugs were planted

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3 w. ago Brit ‘drug smuggler’ Bella Culley urged to 'tell police everything' by ex

A former top cop has told the Mirror that suspected British teen drug smuggler Bella May Culley should tell police everything she knows while being held in Georgia

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4 w. ago Drug smugglers caught with £37m of cocaine in inflatable boat are jailed

Both smugglers leapt overboard and unsuccessfully attempted to swim to shore to escape Border Force

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