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Cocaine smuggler caught with £160k of drugs after Netherlands 'Christmas shopping' trip

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smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of £160k into the UK after a "Christmas shopping" trip in the Netherlands. Sean Hart, 48, from Wallsend, North Tyneside, was stopped in a hired van at the Eurotunnel control in Coquelles, France, in December 2016.

Hart had travelled to Eersel in the Netherlands on December 19 and later told officers the trip had been to buy Christmas presents, as well as to collect a motorcycle and parts for his family’s hobby of international motocross racing, Chronicle Live reports.

Border Force officers discovered two packages of cocaine weighing a total of 2kg concealed in the dashboard after stopping the van.The cocaine would be worth an estimated £60k at wholesale and £160k at street level.

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