A man who thought he could waltz past airport security with 14,000 cigarettes stuffed in his luggage has been jailed. Michael Legros has just returned from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children when he was pulled up by border force officers at Manchester Airport in May 2020.
While his suitcases with seearched, Legros, 32, began aggressively pacing up and down with his fists clenched. And when the thousands of cigarettes were found, he responded by calling the officers "scruffy c****" before adding "you only earn £20,000 a year - just keep the cigarettes", reports the Liverpool Echo.
Zahra Baqri, prosecuting, said Legros told one of the officers, who was Asian, that he looked like a "Rochdale paedo". The officer was heard to be physically shaken by the racial abuse.
