Daily Mail - Pair jailed for smuggling paracetamol and caffeine that they intended...

[edgarshade]

Pair jailed for smuggling paracetamol and caffeine that they intended to cut with heroin in landmark drugs trial which only featured LEGAL substances

By Emma Reynolds
PUBLISHED: 16:11, 19 October 2012

With reader comments

• Anthony Woodford masterminded transport of 330lbs of crushed tablets
• Investigators believe it would have been used to cut heroin, leaving the duo with a quantity worth £5million
• David Lewinson was the 'mule' and drove on to a Dunkirk-bound ferry
• He was caught when he tried to return the next day
• The pair were jailed for eight years at Canterbury Crown Court

Two men have been jailed in a landmark drugs case after only being caught with caffeine and paracetamol. Anthony Woodford, 23, and David Lewinson, 44, were jailed for eight years today in a landmark ruling after Lewinson was arrested at Dover docks in Kent. He was found with 330lb (150kg) of the crushed substances, which investigators are convinced was intended to cut heroin, giving the pair a stash with a street value of more than £5million.

'The sentence given today will send a clear message to those involved in the importation and supply of drugs that we will relentlessly investigate when we feel that offences are being committed.'

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[S.J.B.]

This is insane. I can't believe these people are being put away for eight years for caffeine and Tylenol.

 

[23536]

what temperature does Tylenol precipitate at? Seems like a poor choice of cut.

 

[szuko000]

How can you arrest someone for having crushed legal substances. I understand that it can be used in an illegal substances but I doubt they had much evidence

 

[slimvictor]

They could have used less cut to make their heroin, and had £10 million worth!
Or even £20 million worth!
Maybe they were planning to make 98% pure heroin, which would have been worth £1 billion!
Given them death!
For these legal substances.

 

[naughtynicknails]

Anthony Woodford masterminded transport of 330lbs of crushed tablets..

Masterminded? Really?

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Anthony Woodford masterminded transport of 330lbs of crushed tablets..

Masterminded? Really?

lol forreal, they act like the dude was a criminal mastermind, akin to a comic book villain.

 

[sekio]

What the fuck? What's next, arresting everyone with a minivan for 'conspiracy to traffick cocaine'?

It's not against the law to move key bricks of Tylenol! Watch out or someone might fix their headache!

 

[tentram]

absolutely fucking gob smacked at this. is this for real, really?