LONDON: A 58 years drugs baron who ran a multi-million pound smuggling ring by hiding heroin and cocaine in Asda coffee tins has been jailed for 16 years.
Karl Wilson lived in a £400,000 villa in Jamaica after fleeing Britain when his Class A drugs ring was smashed in 2008.
After being extradited back to Britain last year, he admitted money laundering and conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and was jailed yesterday.
Wilson and his gang trafficked heroin and cocaine from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, to Aberdeen in north-east Scotland.
They smuggled the drugs in tins of Asda coffee, soaked in vinegar to put sniffer dogs off their scent.
Wilson, whose nickname was ‘Mafia’ in the underworld, first went to Aberdeen from Wolverhampton to sell drugs with his associate Melanie Clarke in 2002.