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Cocaine worth more than £500,000 (N133m) was on Thursday (November 13) found hidden in rope at Gatwick airport (central London) – a method which has been described as ‘sophisticated’.
The drugs, weighing 13kg, were seized after arriving on a flight from Jamaica at the West Sussex airport. The rope, concealing the Class A drug used to secure a pallet of imported food (including yams, sweet potatoes, avocados), was discovered to contain the banned substance when officers examined it.
Border Force south regional director Carole Upshall said: “As this seizure shows, smugglers often employ sophisticated methods, this time using the external rope packaging to try to conceal the drugs”.
