T-shirts concealed cannabis cargo

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A man was caught at the ferry port in Stranraer with a consignment of T-shirts concealing cannabis bound for Belfast, a court has been told.

Keith Jones, 23, of Willowbank Gardens, Antrim Road, North Belfast, was stopped by security officers.

They searched suitcases in the vehicle he was driving and found 40kg of the drug worth about £200,000.

Jones admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis on 1 October last year. Sentence was deferred.

John Scullion, prosecuting, told the High Court in Glasgow that when asked what was inside four suitcases in the back of the vehicle Jones told police it was T-shirts.

While there were T-shirts in the cases, they were being used to conceal cannabis bars.

Received payment

On the streets of Belfast, the consignment would have been worth £200,000 as opposed to £120,000 in Scotland.

Mr Scullion said that when Jones was interviewed by police he revealed he had been paid £200 to collect the cannabis and drive it back to Belfast.

He borrowed a friend's people carrier for the journey.

Jones said he was told to meet a man in a lay-by between Dumfries and Stranraer to pick up the consignment.

Lord Macphail called for reports before sentencing Jones in Edinburgh on 1 August.

His bail was continued.