His response to the police was brief, but resigned. "I'm f****d, aren’t I?," Craig Parr said after officers tracked him to a hotel room in Newcastle.
They had seized £300m of drugs, and caught him red handed. Just days earlier, Parr had been in a service station off the M25, raising a glass ahead of a daring plot.
He had been tasked with helping transport the ‘immense’ consignment of heroin and ketamine from the south of England to its intended final destination in the north west.
Drugs - hidden in bags of rice - which cause misery on the streets, but provide easy money for unscrupulous gangsters. But as Parr supped from a cold bottle of beer, he and his companions had no idea that they were being tailed.
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