A drugs courier was caught with nearly £85,000 of heroin and crack cocaine when he fell off his bike.
Craig Byatt was attempting to escape police along a canal towpath when he slipped and was arrested while carrying the illicit class A substances inside a sports bag. It came only months after he had led officers through the streets in a high speed car chase which ended in a crash.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Monday, that patrols spotted a grey Volkswagen Golf driving in the area of Walton Breck Road at around 4pm on August 24 last year. Christopher Hopkins, prosecuting, described how checks revealed that the car had no MOT, but when they attempted to stop the vehicle it "made off at speed" onto Taplow Street in Anfield.
