Guernsey Press

'Big stakes' drugs pair jailed after £1.5m bust

A COMBINED 19 years behind bars face Adrian Osborne and Thomas Waterman after a drugs bust involving £1.5m.-worth of cannabis resin.

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Nearly 50kg of the class B drug was seized by customs and police officers, with a street value of £1m.- £1.5m., the Royal Court heard, following the arrest of both men during a surveillance operation at Grandes Rocques car park.

Both men got out of their cars and Osborne carried a box containing 11.48kg of resin to the back seat of Waterman's Mercedes.

After their arrest, an even larger haul of more than 38kg of cannabis resin was found in various packages during a police search of Osborne's home, along with a cannabis plant.

Osborne, 51, and Waterman, 44, were sentenced to seven-and-a-half years and nine years in prison respectively after pleading guilty to a joint charge of being concerned in the supply of cannabis resin.

Osborne was then sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing cannabis resin with the intent to supply, for the resin at his home, and two months for the cultivation of a cannabis plant. All the sentences run concurrently, giving an overall prison sentence of 10 years for Osborne.

In sentencing, Judge Russell Finch described the explanations given by both men for their involvement in this drugs case as 'an insult to our intelligence'.

'You played for big stakes and lost,' he said.

'Now punishment is due.'

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