Two jailed over £3m cocaine plot

Lenton (L) and King were arrested after the drugs were found in a car

Two men convicted of plotting to import drugs worth up to £3m into the UK have been jailed at Oxford Crown Court.

Matthew King, 42, of Laverstoke Lane, Whitchurch, Hampshire, who earlier admitted conspiracy to import cocaine, was jailed for nine years, four months.

Harry Lenton, 24, of Midlane Close, Basingstoke, was jailed for nine years after being found guilty in October of the same charge.

They were caught when 6.5kg of cocaine was seized in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

A third man, 50-year-old Martin Lonsdale, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine and is due to be sentenced on 18 December.

Lonsdale, of Chapel Close, Clifton, Oxfordshire, was arrested on 12 April in a car in the Bunkers Hill area of Kidlington.

The drugs were recovered from the boot of his car.

King was arrested on the same day in Abingdon town centre and Lenton was arrested at his home on 28 April.