Drug smuggler caught with £100k cannabis in suitcase
A drug smuggler was caught arriving at Edinburgh Airport with a suitcase filled with with cannabis worth more than £100,000 on the streets.
Henry Alden was intercepted by border control officers after picking up the case when he arrived on a flight from Barcelona.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Alden, 20, claimed he had been in the Spanish city for a fortnight but enquiries revealed he had flown from Luton to Barcelona five days earlier.
Prosecutor Bruce Erroch told the court: “He advised the officers that the suitcase was his, that he had packed it himself and that he was not carrying anything for anyone else.”
He said the case was opened and officers found it contained “a limited amount of clothing”. Alden had packed two T-shirts, a polo shirt, two pairs of shorts and a set of underwear.
Mr Erroch said: “It also contained 11 bags of...
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