A delivery driver accused of trying to smuggle more than £800,000 of cannabis into Northern Ireland thought he was picking up food packages, the High Court heard yesterday. Counsel for Chris Connaughton (36) claimed that his client had known nothing about the consignment of drugs, which was hidden in pallets of orange juice. Connaughton, from Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and three others charged with conspiracy to import class B drugs from Spain were detained after 167kgs of cannabis was found in a van in Camlough, south...
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