A MAN and a woman have appeared in court after officers found amphetamine with a minimum street value of £4.75million inside a barn coversion.

Blackburn magistrates heard how police and officials from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs carried out a joint raid at the barn conversion in Belthorn Road, Guide.

The court heard officers, who are still searching the property, discovered 637 Kg of amphetamines.

The raid, which the Lancashire Telegraph understands to be one of the biggest amphetamine busts ever in East Lancashire, took place shortly after 3pm on Monday.

The court heard how a man stopped in a car in Blackburn had holdalls containing more than £1million in cash.

Further large sums of cash, as much a £1million a month, has been paid into bank accounts in Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Nelson, Bury and Farnsworth over recent months, prosecutors allege.

Labib Arshid, 44, of Higher Springfield Barn, Belthorn Road, and Rebecca Sherwood, 30, of the same address, are charged with possession of amphetamine with intent to supply and possessing criminal property, a large sum of money.

Arshid is also charged with money laundering.

They were both sent in custody to Preston Crown Court where they will appear on January 15.

A bail application was made for Sherwood, who was described in court yesterday as the national sales manager for an American company that deals in high value Swiss watches.

There was no bail application for Arshid.