Ryan King, 38, of Tollerton Road, West Derby, Liverpool, was part of an organised crime group that tried to smuggle the drugs – 72kg of cocaine and 51kg of heroin – into the UK in March 2022.

National Crime Agency officers began an investigation after colleagues from Border Force discovered the drugs concealed in the machinery at Killingholme Port near Grimsby in Lincolnshire after arriving from the Hook of Holland in an unmanned trailer.

King’s DNA was found on the drugs packages and a tracker inside the concealment.

He was arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport in December 2022 when he returned from Alicante, and was charged with attempting to smuggle class A drugs.

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