A Belfast man was found guilty at Wexford Circuit Court yesterday of importing an estimated £1 million worth of cannabis resin into Ireland from France.
Leslie Dickey (43), of Albertbridge, Belfast, an unemployed French polisher, was stopped by Customs National Drugs team at Rosslare Harbour as he disembarked from the Irish Ferries MV Normandy from Cherbourg, on October 1st last year in a car towing a caravan.
Customs officers using a sniffer dog found 403 slabs of cannabis in two hidden compartments in the caravan. Dickey will be sentenced on Tuesday.