Scots cocaine gang caught smuggling £10m of drugs in 'Belgian waffle' trucks

4 members of a medicine gang caught with an enormous haul of cocaine smuggled in a lorry which gave the impression to be transporting Belgian waffles have been hit with most time period crime prevention orders.

James Davidson, David Mullarkey, Ellis Hardy and Wayne Smith had been jailed for a complete of twenty-two years final month after police seized the excessive purity Class A drug price as much as £10million on the streets.

Officers carried out a raid on the premises of a kitchen agency on the Hillington industrial property, Glasgow, in June 2019, and seized 30 kilos of cocaine.

The medicine, which had been as much as 84 per cent pure, had been trafficked in an HGV lorry, supposedly delivering a load of waffles, in a hid compartment and transferred to an tailored Transit van at Mullarkey's enterprise premises.

James Davidson was jailed for over six years for his position in a medication smuggling gang (Picture: Police Scotland)

David Mullarkey was hit with the identical sentence after £10m cocaine was seized in Glasgow (Picture: Police Scotland)

Police had been monitoring Hardy, who was within the firm of Smith, within the van the day earlier than the raid was carried out on June 22, after they drove to the commercial property.

Davidson had pushed the HGV to the rendezvous on the premises of DM Kitchens, earlier than officers moved in to grab the illicit cargo, which had the potential to make £9.96million if adulterated and damaged down into avenue offers.

Davidson, 58, of Yoker, Glasgow, and Mullarkey, 47, of Stepps, Lanarkshire, had been every jailed for six years and three months for his or her roles within the operation.

Hardy, 42, was caged for 5 years and Smith, 39, was imprisoned for 4 and a half years. They had been each from Mitcham, in Surrey.

They'd admitted being concerned in severe organised crime and facilitating the transportation and distribution of the cocaine.

Lord Boyd of Duncansby, who jailed the crooks on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh, informed them: "Critical organised crime poses a menace to us all.

"It damages the material of our society and challenges the rule of legislation."

Ellis Hardy was being monitored by police the day earlier than the raid (Picture: Police Scotland)

Wayne Smith was jailed for 4 and a half years (Picture: Police Scotland)

The choose mentioned the trafficking of Class A medication was "a selected scourge to our society" which produced distress for people and communities.

Following the jailing of the 4, the Crown requested the courtroom to impose severe crime prevention orders on them.

After a short listening to on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh immediately, Lord Boyd agreed to make the orders.

This implies the offenders should notify police of their handle following their launch and can see restrictions over entry to telephones and different good gadgets imposed on them.

All 4 had been made topic to the orders for the utmost interval of 5 years.

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