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A drug trafficker who attempted to import £20m worth of cocaine and ketamine from Europe into England was apprehended in Ibiza's Pacha nightclub. Eddie Burton, 23, sealed over 300kg of class A and B drugs in vacuum packs whilst hiding out in an Amsterdam flat before the stash was loaded onto lorries destined for the UK.

On July 3 2022, Border Force officers intercepted the first lorry and discovered 90 kilos of ketamine and 50 kilos of cocaine stashed in boxes and a Lidl shopping bag. The second lorry was halted just six weeks later, on August 12.

Inside, officers found 142 kilos of cocaine and 25 kilos of heroin hidden in a modified fuel tank.

Burton faced Canterbury Crown Court alongside his former partner Sian Banks, 25, in February this year after confessing to a seri

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