An engineer who feared he’d be killed if he didn’t ferry drugs for a crime gang has been jailed for two and a half years.
John Haughey was caught with cocaine with a street value of £1.2m of at junction nine of the M74 near Kirkmuirhill, Lanarkshire.
The 58-year-old told police he was transporting the huge haul of the class A’ drug “under duress” after he and his family were threatened by the un-named criminals.
