Think he was made a scapegoat with that amount it is nowt to them better to sacrifice 1 to get 10 or so through it is worth it
When they were prepared to sacrifice 1 k of it many years ago
ezydriver:
Harry Monk:
I certainly can’t imagine them trying to prosecute an offence that occurred in the 1980s.… said Rolf’s advisor.
■■■■■■ assault is probably considered to be a little more serious than victimless tachograph offences committed in a foreign country?
Bit more info here from the local rag about the trial and his past exploits!
tezza:
Bit more info here from the local rag about the trial and his past exploits!
In cross examination, prosecuting, Paul Mitchell, read out a number of texts which were downloaded from a mobile phone found in the cabin of the lorry.
One text sent from the phone 43 minutes before his lorry was stopped read: “Almost at dover (sic). I’ll be home in the morning. Or in the cells by the morning."
Not wrong there then. 
Just echoing what’s already been said but he has convictions so he was always likely to attract attention from the UKBA so it was only a matter of time but I’m sure some of his “goods” got through undetected.
bald bloke:
Just echoing what’s already been said but he has convictions so he was always likely to attract attention from the UKBA so it was only a matter of time but I’m sure some of his “goods” got through undetected.
Agreed, it seems a crazy scheme from start to finish, given his previous. Had the cocaine been crated up, labelled as “machine parts” or somesuch and sent by DHL, there’s virtually no chance that it would have attracted the Feds’ attention.
I can’t believe he was using names in the texts he sent? 
And from those texts it looks like this wasn’t the first time…
Evil8Beezle:
I can’t believe he was using names in the texts he sent?
And from those texts it looks like this wasn’t the first time…
Either he’s stupid or extremely brazen or maybe both.
So there are two criminals called Philip Green, one gets sixteen years in the nick, the other gets a knighthood. I guess it’s all about having friends in high places.
Evil8Beezle:
I can’t believe he was using names in the texts he sent?
And from those texts it looks like this wasn’t the first time…
I can’t believe he used texts at all-what a ■■■■■■■ idiot-no texts = much less evidence ffs
I wonder what he “felt guilty about” with Francis …
Terry T:
Just goes to show you never know who you’re chatting too. One forum I used to post on one bloke was jailed for boinking two 14 year olds (a mother founds pics of said ■■■■■■■■■ on her kid’s phone) and another for child ■■■■
Probably best to stay away from the BBCPresenterNet forum really.
this prick offered me free experience running the continent with him on a couple of trips…who do you reckon would have been driving it through customs if id had taken up the offer
fodentanker:
He hid £3 million worth of Cocaine under his bunk.No secret compartment. No false floor. Not hidden in the middle of something.
Just under the bunk.Amazing.
Makes no odds really. Most pulls are targeted and under the bunk or hidden in trailer wall they’ll find what they’re looking for.
Amazing how many experts on the criminal underworld reside on this forum…Either that or you lads have watched the Godfather too many times recently.
What a ■■■■■■…
switchlogic:
fodentanker:
He hid £3 million worth of Cocaine under his bunk.No secret compartment. No false floor. Not hidden in the middle of something.
Just under the bunk.Amazing.
Makes no odds really. Most pulls are targeted and under the bunk or hidden in trailer wall they’ll find what they’re looking for.
In my experience, most pulls occur because a member of the smuggling gang phones HMRC with false information that one or more of the first trucks off of the boat is carrying drugs, so that their own truck, which has been arranged to be one of the last trucks off of the boat, drives straight out of the port, HMRC already having all of their search bays full of red herrings.
I’ve been given massive turnouts where HMRC were obviously acting on information received, where I wasn’t even half an ounce of tobacco over the limit, where it was obvious that this was happening. I even explained this to an HMRC officer once during a turnout, and he looked very thoughtful, as if he might have been told before that this happens.
switchlogic:
Amazing how many experts on the criminal underworld reside on this forum…Either that or you lads have watched the Godfather too many times recently.
Well you’d obviously need to be an expert on the crimianl underworld to know different? 
Evil8Beezle:
switchlogic:
Amazing how many experts on the criminal underworld reside on this forum…Either that or you lads have watched the Godfather too many times recently.Well you’d obviously need to be an expert on the crimianl underworld to know different?
Or just know criminal and mafia films very well to see all the clichés pop up
The reason it was only under his mattress was due to the fact ,it’s a lot harsher sentence if you were concealing the stuff and trying to get it in ,under the bunk its not been concealed .
switchlogic:
Evil8Beezle:
switchlogic:
Amazing how many experts on the criminal underworld reside on this forum…Either that or you lads have watched the Godfather too many times recently.Well you’d obviously need to be an expert on the crimianl underworld to know different?
Or just know criminal and mafia films very well to see all the clichés pop up
But basically you’re guessing and assuming everyone else is?