Cannabis smugglers convicted

Title

Cannabis smugglers convicted

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

27 Nov 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:03:22

Description

Tim Crook reports on the case of 13 men convicted by Judge Richard Lowry of smuggling cannabis from north Africa to Cornwall. Includes an interview with the head of Scotland Yard’s drug squad who led Operation Cyril, Detective Chief Superintendent Wally Boreham, and Customs assistant chief investigator Donald Holman. The smuggling ringleader, bookmaker Robert Mills, was given a ten-year sentence, while the other men received lesser sentences.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Donald Holman; Walter Boreham

Keywords

Crime; UK; Cannabis; Illegal drugs; Smuggling; Imprisonment; Cornwall; Trials; Africa; Sentencing; Richard Lowry; Robert Mills

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