Grandad's 'stupidness' saw him arrested at Manchester Airport
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA homeless man showed a 'chronic lack of thinking' when he agreed to act as a drugs mule, a court heard. Scott Mitchell attempted to smuggle 17kg of cannabis from Bangkok to the UK via Paris.
But when the 49-year-old was stopped by a Border Force officer at Manchester Airport's Terminal 2 at around 10.45pm on September 6 this year the plot came crashing down.
When asked what was in his suitcase Mitchell immediately confessed. Inside customs officers found 30 vacuum-wrapped packages of cannabis with a street value of £60,200. READ MORE: Cops swarm well-known Manchester street with knife recovered and man detained after 'robbery' at Co-op Manchester Crown Court heard the 49-year-old grandfather was to be paid £4,000 on delivery of the drugs.
The people for he was working were saved in a phone he'd been given for the job as 'mum'. The court heard Mitchell's life had spiralled out of control following the death of his father 18 months ago.
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