A man who claimed he moved to Thailand to start a ‘new life’ was caught with 26 kilos of cannabis at Manchester Airport .

Oliver Chiverton, 32, was stopped by Border Force officials at terminal 1 on August 16 this year. He was asked about his two suitcases and told officers they were not his but had been handed to him.

Chiverton added that he thought they might contain cigarettes, Manchester Crown Court heard. But when officers searched the cases, they found multiple sealed packages of the class B drug worth over £60,000.

He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition of the importation of a class B drug, claiming that he owed a drug debt to those he worked for whilst living in Thailand.

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