A grandad turned to trafficking millions of pounds of drugs after being sacked from his warehouse job and threatening to spray paint the words "nonce" and "paedophile" over his manager's house.
Peter Melia was stopped on the motorway while couriering a huge £11million stash of heroin and crack cocaine, which was packed inside bags for life concealed in a hidden compartment inside his van. It came after he found himself unemployed and racking up debts due to his cannabis habit.
The now 46-year-old previously appeared in court in April last year after flying into a rage when he was dismissed from his role as a warehouseman at a company in Speke. The ECHO reported on that occasion that the dad-of-four and grandfather-of-two reacted "very badly" when his manager called him into his office and fired him on January 6, 2021.
