A party animal who racked up debts tried to smuggle cannabis through Manchester Airport in a failed bid to solve his financial problems.
George Samuels said he was offered £10,000 to carry two suitcases containing £200,000 of the class B drug into the country. But the scheme failed and landed him in jail.
Samuels, 20, is now serving a 28-month prison sentence and is currently being housed at Altcourse prison in Merseyside, hundreds of miles from his native Essex.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard Samuels was stopped by Border Force officers at terminal one of the airport on Sunday, May 12.
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