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UK: Thai Pot Plot Pair Jailed
Sunderland Echo
Saturday 09 Dec 2006 DRUG traffickers who sneaked £250,000-worth of cannabis into the country from the Far East by packing it in furniture were today behind bars. Desmond Donnelly masterminded a plot to import more than 90 kilos of herbal cannabis which came from Thailand via Southampton, bound for sale on Wearside. He hatched the plot while his accomplice, Joseph Quinn, 24, was in Asia meeting his Thai girlfriend. Newcastle Crown Court heard the drug was cunningly packed into furniture to avoid arousing suspicion from customs officials. But the pair were collared by police who had them under surveillance. Donnelly, 36, of Atwood Grove, Southwick, Sunderland, who was the more heavily involved in the scam, was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of being involved in the importation of drugs after a trial. Quinn, 25, of Frank Street, Southwick, who admitted his part, was jailed for four years. The court heard how Quinn, who would regularly meet up with Donnelly in Thailand, visited the country to meet his Thai girlfriend. His barrister Jamie Adams said Quinn became involved in the scheme during one of the romantic visits to Bangkok. Mitigating Mr Adams said Quinn comes from a respectable family who are horrified in his involvement with crime. Sentencing the pair, Judge Esmond Faulks said: "This offence bears all the hallmarks of a practised, serious and well organised crime. "It is the function of these courts to deal severely with those who are engaged in such enterprises." http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1107&ArticleID=1923142
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