Jail for heroin smugglers

Two men have been jailed for 13 years each after trying to smuggle drugs worth nearly £2m.

Garry Lennox, 46, from Cumbria, and Frederick Matthew Keight, 48, from Kent were arrested as they left the Eastern Docks at Dover on foot in March.

Both were wearing high visibility reflective jackets and were trying to leave the docks through a crew gate.

They were found to be using a dock pass belonging to a stewardess.

The men were carrying 23.4 kilograms of heroin and 985 grams of cocaine in rucksacks, with an estimated street value of £1.8m pounds.

They were caught by customs officers working with Kent police.

At Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday, Lennox from Crag Fell View on Grange Fell Road, Grange-over-sands, and Keight, from Radnor Park Road in Folkestone, were each sentenced to 13 years.

Both had pleaded guilty to the charges at a court hearing in May.