A grandad used his job as a lorry driver as cover as he transported hundreds of thousands of pounds of heroin across the country.
Stanley Feerick handed over a hold-all packed with several kilos of the class A drug when he was pulled over by police at a motorway service station, Liverpool Crown Court heard today. The pensioner was also part of a gang behind a £1million amphetamine lab who carried out their dodgy dealings in a Costco car park.
He was ensnared by a National Crime Agency probe codenamed Operation Joyfully, which was set up to investigate an organised crime group run by Terence Earle via encrypted communications platform EncroChat. The 49-year-old, of Freckleton Road in St Helens, "enlisted the help of subordinates" such as Feerick and Stephen King in carrying out his illicit activities.
