A gang involved in the importation of over two tonnes of Class A drugs with an estimated street value of more £250 million pounds have been jailed today (Thursday 21 March) following an investigation by detectives at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
Four men connected to the plot, which involved importing cocaine and heroin from Europe concealed in a trailer, were given prison sentences totalling 55 years at Chester Magistrates Court.
The court heard that between 3 May and 21 September 2023, Guy Remington from Herefordshire, drove to France, Belgium and Holland via the Eurotunnel, using an empty trailer to hide his drugs. He would return to his Hereford home address twenty-four hours later.
Remington would then travel to Luke Hirst's home address, a farm in Deeside, North Wales, the day after returning from Europe, and remove the drugs from a concealment hidden behind the wooden panels of his trailer. The drugs were then sorted into boxes and bags for onward supply.
Hirst would meet his customers at a nearby service station or on Pinfold Lane, then take their cars to his property, where he would fill them with drugs before giving their vehicles back to them, all to conceal the location of his farm.
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