Coventry man jailed for 12 years for planning to import cocaine from Holland
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:24 pm
Tudor Williams, of Chapelfields, was jailed for 12 years
A Coventry man who wanted to get an HGV licence so he could import cocaine has been convicted of attempting to traffick drugs into the UK.
Tudor Williams plotted to import huge amounts of cocaine and amphetamine from Holland in April and May this year.
National Crime Agency officers arrested Williams, 46, after he handed a carrier bag containing £32,625 to Mohammed Taj in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham.
Officers then searched Williams’s home in Dulverton Avenue, Chapelfields, and found a further £19,970 in cash and several mobile phones.
One of the phones revealed e-mails between him and two people in Holland and plans to bring multiple kilogram quantities of cocaine and amphetamine to Britain.
They planned to hide the drugs within pallets and initially intended to import up to four times a month, eventually increasing to 10 times a month.
Williams also stated that he intended to take his HGV test to bring the drugs over from Holland.
He even travelled to Rotterdam in May with his girlfriend where he met other conspirators to discuss the enterprise.
Williams denied any knowledge and said the mobile phone belonged to someone else, but his DNA was recovered from the handset.
Today at Birmingham Crown Court, Williams was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import class A and B drugs.