National Crime Agency officers have today arrested a 23-year-old woman from east London as part of an investigation into the smuggling of Albanian migrants into the UK. The Romanian national was detained near her home address in Walthamstow this morning by NCA officers working as part of Project Invigor, the… Read more »
Truck driver charged over huge half-tonne cocaine haul in Dover
National Crime Agency investigators have charged a German truck driver with attempting to import class A drugs, following a huge seizure of cocaine at Dover. The haul, which weighed almost half a tonne, was found by Border Force officers carrying out checks on vehicles entering the UK on the evening… Read more »
HGV ‘supercab’ patrolling M25 to reduce road accidents
Highways England has teamed up with police forces from all around Britain’s most iconic motorway in a new bid to improve safety. Using specially adapted, unmarked HGV cabs, officers will patrol the M25 and record drivers of all types of vehicles committing mobile phone or other safety offences that are… Read more »
Newark HGV driver gets suspended sentence for drivers’ hours offences
A Newark lorry driver has been handed an 8-month suspended sentence and 200 hours of unpaid work for driving up to 21 hours a day and putting other road users’ lives at risk at Leeds Crown Court (Thursday 5 March). Neil Drury, 48 of Thompson Close, Coddington, owned and drove… Read more »
Four arrested in people smuggling investigation after migrants rescued from truck
Two Irish nationals from the Dover area have been charged following yesterday’s arrests. Wayne Sherlock (39) and Eoin Nolan (48) were charged with conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration. Both men were remanded in custody following a hearing at Canterbury Magistrates court. The 64 yr old lorry driver arrested in Belgium… Read more »
Lorry driver hid £1.4 million of cocaine in his bed
A lorry driver has been jailed for 12 years after trying to import cocaine worth almost £1.4 million into the UK. Bulgarian national Yuriy Vasilev, 48, from Pernik, Bulgaria, who hid 17 kilos of cocaine within the frame of the bunk bed in his lorry, was found guilty following a… Read more »
Vehicles as a weapon is a real danger, says Counter Terrorism Police to FTA
Scott Gibbons of the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters has highlighted the danger Vehicle as a Weapon (VAW) attacks pose to logistics businesses and UK citizens. Mr Gibbons speaks of how the 2016 terrorist VAW attack in Nice was a “game changer” and ignited an international security policy shift that is… Read more »
Corrupt lorry driver jailed for bringing £1.7 million cocaine into UK
A lorry driver stopped at the Port of Hull with cocaine worth £1.7 million has been jailed for 8 years and 8 months. Mihai Ciceu, aged 34, a Romanian national with no fixed address, was sentenced at Hull Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to importing Class A drugs at an… Read more »
RHA condemns those responsible for bomb found on a truck in County Armagh
RHA chief executive, Richard Burnett has reacted strongly to the news of an explosive device being attached to a truck belonging to a County Armagh haulier. “We unreservedly condemn the callous disregard these people have shown for the lives of others. This reckless act could have caused devastation had the… Read more »
Mansel Davies haulage company fined £380,000 for false maintenance records
A Pembrokeshire haulage company has been landed with a £380,000 fine with £120,000 costs for forging lorry maintenance records which risked the safety of other road users. Mansel Davies and Son Limited, based in Llanfyrnach, received the fine at Swansea Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday 11 February) after pleading guilty to 19 offences of… Read more »
