Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A trial has opened into a ‘giant’ drug case in which just under £300 million worth of cocaine and ketamine was found being transported to the North West alongside bags of basmati rice.
Five men, all from the Wigan area, face charges of conspiracy to supply class A and class B drugs. But the court heard that HGV driver Stephen King, of Pipit Avenue, Newton-Le-Willows, was caught alone with the drugs - in a wagon from Salford Van Hire.
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