AS Rodney Grills headed back up the M1 from Sydney, the street value of the methamphetamine hidden in the boot of his BMW was somewhere between $750,000 and $2 million.
But Grills, 41, a prolific drug dealer now caught supplying ice and cocaine four times, claims he was just a middleman, an employee to a supplier up the line and any financial reward was used to either feed his own addiction or "stave off the impact" of a significant drug debt he owed.
