A 54-YEAR-OLD Barbadian drug smuggler who shipped £2 million (about BDS$4.9 million) worth of liquid cocaine into the United Kingdom disguised as oil, has been jailed for 16 years.
And the British authorities who worked on the case, including the intelligence forces, have heaped praise on the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) for its efforts in helping to crack the case.
Errol Watson, of Queenswood Gardens in Wanstead, East London, was arrested last July 20 after a flight from Barbados arrived at Gatwick Airport with 18 kilogrammes of liquid cocaine hidden inside three metal canisters.
On Friday, July 17, National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators, working with colleagues from the RBPF, identified a suspect shipment coming into Gatwick in a crate aboard a Virgin Atlantic plane. (TR)
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