A man has been jailed after he was pressured into transporting drugs across the country.
Mark Stuart was coerced into transporting £30,000 worth of cocaine from Liverpoo l to Devon for a County Lines gang after he had built up a debt to the organised crime group after losing his job in lockdown. He was told that if he made the trip in a friend's car the debt would be reduced if he acted as a courier.
Police intercepted him near Honiton as he carried the 372 grams of cocaine towards Plymouth after he was seen shaking with fear and staring back at the Ford Fiesta nervously. Upon inspection of the car, police found a large bag of powder in his driver’s footwell Plymouth Live reports.
