Cocaine smuggler jailed
16.02.09
A man has been jailed after cocaine worth more than £200,000 was found in a false compartment in a suitcase at Southampton Airport last year. Roland Castillo, 59, brought the drugs in on a Flybe flight from Paris on September 17, having commenced his journey in Cameroon.
Mr Castillo, a Dutch national, appeared in court today where details of his previous convictions were revealed. He admitted smuggling 1.5 kilos of the Class A drug with a 100 percent purity and was jailed for 7½ years.
Southampton Crown Court heard that Mr Castillo had a previous conviction for attempted murder and had been jailed for 10 years by a court in Venezuela for smuggling cocaine into the South American country.
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