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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Amy Walker

Man hired best pal as a 'smackhead' collateral to collect £3m delivery of heroin and cocaine

A man hired his best friend as a ‘smackhead’ to collect a delivery of class A drugs worth over £3 million as part of a multi-million pound conspiracy.

Roy Evans, 34, was acting as a ‘lieutenant’ to a member of an organised crime group when a shipment from the Netherlands was intercepted by Border Force officials in May 2020.

After inspecting the 12 boxes, they found 50 blocks of heroin, seven blocks of cocaine and a block of cannabis.

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