A granddad was caught with more than £11m of cocaine and heroin hidden inside bags for life when his van was pulled over by police.
Peter Melia was stopped on the motorway while couriering the huge stash of class A drugs, which was concealed in a hidden compartment inside his vehicle.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Thursday, that officers stopped a white Ford Transit van being driven by the 46-year-old - of Ballantyne Road in Clubmoor - at around midday on September 3 last year near to junction 16 of the M6 at Keele in Staffordshire. Mark Phillips, prosecuting, described how a search of the vehicle revealed a hide which contained six bags for life with 64 blocks of drugs wrapped in brown tape inside.
