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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Pettifor

French Bulldog named Bob helps collar drug gang and stop £45million smuggling plot

A French bulldog called Bob has helped collar a drug gang and foil their plot to smuggle more than 70 stone of MDMA to Australia.

They hid the Class A drug, also known as Ecstasy, with a street value of £45million in the arm of a mechanical digger.

But the traffickers were unaware the encrypted phone network they used had been hacked by the National Crime Agency, in part of the UK’s biggest-ever organised crime probe.

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