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Alleged drugs gang member 'duped into smuggling hand grenades', court hears

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A man has told a jury he was duped into carrying two hand grenades away from an alleged drug gang leader's flat. Graham Wellings, 56, said he thought he had been handed cannabis after being summoned to the apartment in Stretford which was said to be the hub of a cocaine and heroin supply operation.

But a court heard how he was being watched by undercover cops as he cycled away - and was later found to be carrying two hand grenades in his rucksack.

The alleged drama happened on January 29 last year after police had already found a gun and two hand-grenades in a storage cupboard of another apartment at Milton Close, a block of flats in Gorse Hill, Stretford. READ MORE: Afflecks Palace is turning 40 - and searching for fans of the world famous indoor market to be immortalised in history The army bomb disposal squad was called and some 400 residents had to be evacuated.

With police descending on the area, alleged gang leader Nathan Morgan, 37, was becoming 'increasingly concerned and paranoid' and used an alleged drug dealing associate, Gary Davies, to summon Mr Wellings to collect two other grenades, according to the prosecution.

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