He had no idea he was being used. But stashed in a cardboard box in a spare bedroom of his Salford flat were huge amounts of heroin.
There was £2.8m worth of the drug, in vacuum packed blocks, in his home in Clifton. He had been 'cuckooed' - a phrase used to describe when crooks take over someone else's home, as a cuckoo takes over the next of another.
In this case, the tenant didn't realise he was being exploited because he had autism. He had been selected to act as unwitting quartermaster for a major drug dealing racket by Lee Davis, a courier for crime boss Shazia Din and her partners-in-crime.
It's understood he did not cooperate with police, but his ordeal can be revealed now that they have been convicted. It's a stark illustration of
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