Former Tunnock’s worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation | N62LX8X | 2024-05-07 06:08:01
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation | N62LX8X | 2024-05-07 06:08:01
A FORMER Tunnock's worker has been jailed for running a huge drugs-smuggling operation.
Bailey Highton, 23, gave up making Caramel Wafers and Tea Cakes for the biscuit firm to traffick £3.6million worth of heroin and cocaine.
The baby-faced dealer was "very active" in Glasgow and Aberdeen and made drop-offs in London, Kent, Liverpool, Essex, Manchester and Birmingham.
He was also in contact with a druglord in Spain and Dubai.
But Highton was busted after cops in Cumbria found his fingerprints on a drugs package linked to local crime boss Robert Smith.
They found detailed records of deals on a phone and he even used his own car for smuggling.
Carlisle Crown Court heard he handled £823,805 in cash despite living in a small flat in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Highton's defence lawyer Andrew Evans said: "He worked at a factory in Uddingston making Tunnock's Tea Cakes."
After pleading guilty to five drugs charges he was caged for a total of seven years, 10 months.
Recorder Julian Shaw told Highton: "The sheer level and scale of the industrial supply you were engaged in was shocking."
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