An HGV driver from Co Antrim has been jailed for smuggling £480,000 worth of cocaine while delivering a shipment of frozen potatoes from the Netherlands.
The National Crime Agency started an investigation into Bryan Anthony Hughes, 30, from Ballymena after his lorry was stopped at the UK Inbound border in Coquelles, France, on 16 October 2021.
Hughes told Border Force officers he had been to Tilburg in the Netherlands. His cab was then searched by officers and eight kilos of cocaine was found inside baggage and in a locker.
