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Two men jailed for trying to smuggle 243 kilos of cocaine into UK on empty coach

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Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Two men have been jailed after attempting to smuggle 243 kilograms of cocaine into the UK on an empty passenger coach.

The coach was stopped and searched at Dover Docks in September last year. Border Force officers uncovered cocaine with a street value of around £19.4 million hidden in a specially constructed wastewater tank.

Following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation, driver Christopher Bullows and his passenger Mark Tucker have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years.

Bullows, 50, of Lord Street, St Helens, claimed he had taken the coach to Belgium so that the air conditioning system, which was under warranty there, could be

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