A mechanic accused of a conspiracy to supply drugs has denied having anything to do with a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £200m.
John Edney, 57, of Main Road, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, told the jury at Blackfriars …

A police officer has been convicted of passing confidential information to his cocaine-taking wife and her drug dealer in return for free drugs and money.
Pc Mark Bohannan, passed on information that allowed Syed Imtiaz Ahmed …

A gang of men from Kent have been jailed for serious drugs offences and money-laundering.
Brothers Leonard, 38, and Roger Powell, 27, Mark Sutherland, 34, and Paul Fenton, 53, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply …

A drug smuggler from Shropshire who plotted to bring cocaine and heroin into the UK has had his sentence reduced after saving an inmate’s life.
Naseer Zaman, 41, of Lilleshall, was serving 15 years after he …

Four men have been arrested after drugs said to be worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen.
The men – aged 18, 19, 20 and 29 – are from the London and Wolverhampton areas.
Grampian Police …

Two men and a woman have been arrested over drug offences on the Isle of Man.
Police stopped the three people on Empress Drive in Douglas on Sunday morning.
They also seized heroin with a street value …

The head of the UN drugs agency (UNODC) has warned that widespread drug trafficking is transforming Africa into a major crime hub.
Antonio Maria Costa said huge amounts of heroin and cocaine were being traded by …

A drugs courier was caught by police after he got tired of travelling by bus and took a taxi for the rest of his journey, a court has heard.
Student David Allan, 22, of Inverness, was …

The numbers of young adults entering NHS-funded treatment for cocaine addiction are growing rapidly.
A total of 1,591 people in England aged 18-24 began receiving treatment for dependence on the class A drug in 2005-06. But …

Cocaine could be sold in pharmacies and cannabis in coffee shops under suggestions for decriminalising drugs set out by think tank Transform.
The body, which campaigns for the legalisation of drugs, says its ideas would reduce …

A police officer who admitted dealing cocaine while on secondment to his force’s drugs unit has been jailed for 26 months.
Christopher McGinn was caught with the drug in a pub car park by Lothian and …

Four people have been arrested after what police believe to be cocaine was found during a raid on a house in Gloucester.
Officers from the street offences team searched the address in Park End Road on …

A teenager has been arrested after drugs with an estimated street value of £75,000 were seized in Aberdeen.
The 19-year-old local man was held after heroin, cocaine and cannabis was recovered in the Cairncry area on …

An Edinburgh solicitor has been accused of dealing drugs from the law firm where he worked as a partner.
Grant O’Connor, 37, is alleged to have supplied cocaine to four men from the offices of Allan …

A major new cocaine trafficking route has developed into the UK through the Balkans, the UN has warned.
It said the amount trafficked through Eastern Europe has increased “dramatically” and has contributed to the low cost …

Fifteen airline crew members have been bailed after officials at Heathrow airport seized cannabis and cocaine with a street value of £310,000.
The South African Airways staff, including three pilots, were arrested on Tuesday after 50kg …

Police have arrested 23 people after cocaine and cannabis was seized in a series of raids in Basildon and London.
The properties were raided in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
A spokesman for Essex Police said …

A “respectable” former public schoolboy who drifted into the world of drugs was battered to death by another middle-class man, the Old Bailey has heard.
Michael Jordan, 25, of Ashtead, Surrey, denies murdering Matthew Demko, also …

A man from Merseyside has been charged with importing cocaine and ecstasy into the Isle of Man.
The island’s drug trafficking unit seized the Class A drugs, worth an estimated £65,000, at the Sea Terminal in …

Two men and a woman have been charged with drug offences after cocaine worth £500,000 was seized during raids.
Officers from Durham Police targeted five addresses in Darlington and one in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
A total of …