DRUG smugglers who swallow the substances they are carrying are dicing with death, a court was told.
Prosecutor Heidi Wilson, acting for Customs and Excise, spoke to Manchester magistrates court during the first appearance of three men who allegedly smuggled £125,000 of cocaine and cannabis from Jamaica.
Damien Aspin, 25, Derek Edmond, 52 and James McWilliams, 29, were all remanded in custody. Aspin, an engineer, of Oakdene Avenue, Huncoat, was remanded in customs custody and will re-appear before magistrates in Manchester today.
Edmond, a forklift truck driver, of Water Street, Accrington, and father-of-one McWilliams, a mechanic of Lodge Street, Accrington, were remanded in prison custody until next Wednesday.
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