Drug courier jailed after being caught with £450k of cocaine in Lanarkshire

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A joiner caught with a £450,000 haul of cocaine while on a trip to see his sick mother has been jailed for four years.Gary O'Connell was held in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire on April 18 2020.A total of nine kilogrammes of cocaine was found hidden in a secret compartment of a Renault Kangoo van he had been driving.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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