"You took a risk": Dad landed in jail after making 'calamitous decision'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A dad was told he had made a ‘calamitous decision’ by agreeing to smuggle drugs into the country. Michael Platt, 42, has been jailed for two years after being caught out when he arrived at Manchester Airport.

Platt, a father-of-three, had been offered £10,000 as well as a holiday to Phuket in Thailand, if he tried to smuggle cannabis through customs on his way home.

But Border Force spotted him and discovered his suitcase contained almost £100,000 of the class B drug. His barrister said Platt had experienced hard times, losing his job and home. READ MORE: He wants to see his parents before they die, but has no idea when he'll be free Prosecuting, Olivia Brooksbank-Laing said that Platt arrived at Manchester Airport on October 26 after travelling from Phuket in Thailand.

He was stopped by Border Force officers after they noticed him carrying a large suitcase. Platt told the officers that he had been away ‘doing family stuff’, and that his luggage contained ‘mainly clothes’.