Two Merseyside men caught in separate sting operations this summer proved drugs bosses are still coveting the island of Jersey as a lucrative market.
Lawrence Mitchell went to fairly extreme lengths to get Class A drugs onto the popular tourist destination on July 21, when he concealed 16 packages of cocaine wrapped in condoms inside himself. The 37-year-old was taken into custody after stepping off a flight from Liverpool.
He eventually told customs officers "I want to be brutally honest with you lads" and admitted he was a courier. The Jersey authorities eventually calculated he had cocaine worth around £27,000 at street level inside his body.
