Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A passenger who was caught trying to smuggle almost £100,000 of cannabis through Manchester Airport told officers 'you guys have got me', a court heard.
Barry Simmons, 35, was returning to the country from Tenerife when he was stopped by customs officers. Simmons, from Merseyside, was found with 389 blocks of cannabis resin, which weighed 9.3 kilos.
If broken down into street deals, the drugs could have been worth £97,500, Manchester Crown Court heard. Now 'cannabis addict' Simmons has been jailed for two years.
He had travelled to the largest of the Canary Islands on November 13, before arriving in Manchester four days later. Customs officers stopped
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