Man jailed for smuggling up to £300,000 worth of cocaine

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A Lanarkshire man who wanted bail so he could prepare his daughter for life without him has been jailed for smuggling £300,000 of cocaine.

Bryan Collum, 34, was arrested after police found him transporting large amounts of the drug between Airdrie and the north of Scotland.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard how officers stopped Collum when he was driving a white Seat Leon on the A95 road in Drumuillie close to Inverness on July 21 last year.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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