Sounds grim. Surely they’d need hard evidence linking him to the gang and involvement with the criminal activities of the gang to sentence him?
Whilst the business is his, he’s not necessarily personally responsible for checking the contents of every container the business ships. Hopefully the jury see it that way, in any case
Can he claim ‘personal use’ on the 10kg bag of yokes as he’s a mate of yours Sean?
Sean, pass on ’Tough don’t last last, tome people do.
He’ll delighted.
if his heroic weekly bugle intake was actually known to the relevant authorities that may just have been a viable strategy
Does he enjoy anal, by any chance?
Forgot about Hugo’s avatar 
.
All joking aside, my best mate was scooped around the turn of the millenium for firing out a bit of gear on a weekly basis. Nowhere near the amounts you are talking about but he went inside for a year. Remember going to visits, seems grim enough. He made a couple of good mates while in there which made it easier and also kept an eye out for him. Not ideal by any means but it’s not going to be like midnight express either.
Does sound like they have something on him, sean. Maybe recorded calls, emails or a brussel sprout has tied him into the goings on?
seanc80
I hope it all goes well for your friend. I started my own courier business up in April and almost all my work is moving items between businesses although sometimes I collect items from houses & take the to a different location. I’ve said to my friends that it would be very easy for a company/person to ask me to collect & deliver something very dodgy without me knowing what I’m talking.
I hope he wins his case.
Best of luck to your mate Sean.
Smaller scale but a lad I knew at uni basically did someone a favour by picking up and dropping off a bag of pills. Turned out that the guy who he picked up from was under surveillance, so he ended up getting nicked for it. He spent most of his second year at uni waiting for his trial to start.
Poor bastard ended up dropping out, not sure if he went down.
Anyway I’m sure many of us did some daft/reckless shit when we where younger when you look back on it. There but for the grace of god and all that.
mono-stereo There was a real life account in Mixmag around the time we were at uni (I think we’re about the same age? I was born ’80, at uni ’98-'01) that properly scared the shit out of me and all my clubbing mates at the time, I remember it well.
Basically, about a student who picked up a batch for all his mates each weekend. Anyway, he got busted and just happened to have the amount (borderline, though) where it’s possession with intent to supply. His account of how fucked his life was was proper grim stuff, just for sorting his mates out each weekend as he had the dealer’s number.
fucking hell
Shit Sean, sounds fucking horrific. All the best for your mate and hope the jury see it for what it is.
I got caught going into a club in Estonia and had a fucking terrible time of it - night in the most disgusting cell, good cop bad cop. I had to wait 6 months in the UK before they decided what to do - obviously, I’m assuming the worst. The British Consulate were fucking excellent mind - they phoned and left a message and said to call them urgently - I nearly collapsed - phoned them back and they said they had some bad news, bit of a pause and then said I had to pay an €800 fine FFS - I’ve never been happier to part with cash in my life. Thought it would give me a criminal record too, so my first trip after to the US was filled with dread, but all good. One of the worst single experiences of my life - that 6 months assuming the worst…
I used to get all the bits and bobs for mates for years, but I’ve stopped all that shit now - properly makes me anxious just getting my own these days.
Yea that sounds rough Grant. This guy’s trial has been put back nearly a dozen times for various reasons. Even the actual trial has been a circus with jurers dropping out etc
Happy to buy him a pint when he gets releases Sean.
Should be some 90th.
