A "devoted family man" turned cocaine courier confessed "there's two kilos on the back seat" after being pulled over by police.
John-Paul Austin, of Prescot Road, Old Swan, was pulled over on June 15 in Torquay, as part of a joint operation between Merseyside Police and Devon and Cornwall Police aiming to tackle county lines drug dealing. Austin, 43, was travelling in a black Renault Clio when it was stopped on Riviera Way in the south coast town, following a tip off.
As police were speaking to Austin, who accepted his fate, other officers noticed a man who had been walking towards the vehicle running away into a wooded area. However the Merseyside Police task-force had brought an unmanned aerial drone along, and the suspect was tracked on camera from the skies.
