Cocaine Courier In Court
TEENAGE drugs courier Ben Makriel was already on bail for smuggling when customs officers caught him again, this time with nearly half a million pounds' worth of cocaine in his suitcase.
And at Croydon Crown Court last week Makriel, 19, of East Preston, was sent to detention for 11 years for drugs smuggling and a string of burglaries.
He was appearing before the court for sentence, after a jury rejected his claim that he had been threatened by bully boys who warned they would burn down his family's Roundstone Crescent home and torture his relatives.
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