An army veteran traumatised on the battlefields of Afghanistan was roped into helping drugs barons import kilos of heroin from Amsterdam stashed inside furniture.
Christopher Traynor, 30, who had a record of "exemplary military service" in the Royal Mercian Regiment, was caught after a Border Force officer opened a package under the name 'Frank de Boer' and found 2.5kg of the Class A drug inside a pouffe.
Liverpool Crown Court heard seeing his "friends maimed" in fierce battles left Traynor, of Lightbound Road, Tranmere, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a spiralling cocaine addiction. The former infantryman ran up an unpayable debt to his dealers and was roped into working for a gang selling heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and 2C-B.
