A drugs courier claimed to cops that he couldn’t smell his £130,000 illegal stash of cannabis hidden in his boot because he’d just had Covid.
Quynh Thai, an illegal immigrant, said he had been given cash by a man in a Manchester food store to drive the Toyota Prius to a property in Carlisle.
But police stopped the car on the M6, near to Carlisle, at around 12.30pm on 9th September. “But upon approaching the car it accelerated away and was pursued for several minutes before being stopped,” prosecutor Gerard Rogerson told Carlisle Crown Court. READ MORE: They lured him to the canal and stabbed him to death - then later they returned Thai was the sole occupant.