UK: Drugs hidden in OAP coach

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icsouthlondon

Wednesday 20 Dec 2006

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SMUGGLERS who packed a pensioners' coach with cannabis have been jailed
for a total of 12-and-a-half years.

Mastermind Anthony MacAvoy, 51, arranged for slabs of resin to be hidden
in a luggage compartment while unwitting passengers enjoyed a trip to
Amsterdam.

MacAvoy, of Dartford Road, Old Bexley, teamed up with coach station boss
Roy Seaton, 63, of Swithland Gardens, Eltham, in a plot to smuggle 45kg
of drugs from Holland.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard on Thursday how coach driver Graham Hull,
59, was planning to take the drugs to northern England after the
passengers got off.

Police swooped on the coach while it was parked in Creekside, Greenwich,
in August last year.

The bus set off for Holland and returned to Dover on August 2 with the
stash.

Cops had monitored and secretly filmed the defendants' every move before
they were arrested.

MacAvoy was arrested waiting in his car near the coach in Greenwich.

Seaton was nabbed hiding behind a plant in a nearby travel agency. Bin
liners full of cannabis were found in Hull's car nearby.

When police raided MacAvoy's house, they found a book called Cocky about
drug smuggler Curtis Warren.

Warren is Britain's most notorious drug smug-gler and he describes both
the pitfalls and rewards of his trade.

MacAvoy and Seaton were both convicted of conspiracy to import drugs.
They were each jailed for five years.

Hull, of Trentview, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was cleared of
conspiracy to import drugs but convicted of possession with intent to
supply. He was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
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