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Liverpool: Gang smuggled £2m cannabis in mattresses

The younger Kinsella brother pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis and was jailed for four years.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said they had hidden a “vast amount” of cannabis in mattresses in bed frames housed in a shipping container.

Eight bed frames contained 668 sealed packages of cannabis, weighing a total of 334kg, and were driven to a storage unit called The Storage Team on 15 January.

The CPS said Chen, of Birchfield Road, Liverpool, was responsible for smuggling the high-grade cannabis into the UK from Canada with John Kinsella, of St Julien Drive, Liverpool, one of his regular buyers.

Senior crown prosecutor Olivia Cristinacce-Travis, of CPS Mersey-Cheshire, said: “Over a few months, Weiji Chen and John Kinsella were involved in the importation of cannabis into Liverpool docks on an industrial scale, valued at over £2 million.”


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