Two men who smuggled £1.1m worth of cannabis into the UK have been jailed. Jack Pritchard and Matthew Hall were at the head of a racket to import large quantities of the drug from Spain into Cheshire.
The pair recruited others from Ellesmere Port as the recipients for the large number of cannabis orders placed with their supplier. In September 2020, four packages containing cannabis, all heading to addresses in Ellesmere Port, were intercepted by the UK Border Agency who then notified Cheshire Constabulary.
The following month officers executed searches at addresses on Heath Grove, Kronsbeck Avenue, Scotton Avenue, Tennyson Road, and Aldgate in Ellesmere Port and19 kilograms of cannabis was seized. An investigation was able to prove that at total of 95 kilograms of cannabis had been imported by the group with a potential street value of £1,117,640.
