Craig Simpson went on the run after the gang was infiltrated by the National Crime Agency
A 'courier' who went on the run to Marbella after a huge cocaine smuggling plot was uncovered by the National Crime Agency has lost an appeal against his sentence. Craig Simpson acted as a 'buffer' between drug dealers and customers in a slick operation which saw crates of the Class A drug flown into Manchester Airport from Amsterdam.
READ MORE: Member of alleged high-level criminal gang found with cocaine under spare wheel of Porsche, trial hearsJurors found that he did not know the crates contained cocaine, and he was not convicted of smuggling the drug. Prosecuting, Roger Brown told the court that the crates were imported into the UK via a shipping company and were picked up at the airport.
"The defendant fled the country and never returned to the UK voluntarily. He was extradited back to the UK in 2021," he said. "The defendant's explanation for why he did not return to the country is because he couldn’t get a passport as his had expired." In February Simpson, then 47, of Cranworth Green, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees was sentenced to eight years in prison. At London's Appeal Court his barrister argued that his sentence was 'manifestly excessive'.
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