Nam Ngoc entered the UK illegally three years in the past
Police swooped on a member of an organised crime group as he was delivering medication from Cardiff to Swansea, a courtroom has heard. Officers discovered 5kg of hashish at the back of Nam Ngoc’s automotive, and located he was carrying a false worldwide driver’s licence.
Swansea Crown Courtroom heard 21-year-old Ngoc entered the UK illegally three years in the past and has beforehand labored as a painter and decorator in Yorkshire. A decide informed the defendant that the earlier he’s despatched again to his residence nation the higher.
Alycia Carpanini, prosecuting, informed the courtroom that on December 20 final 12 months police obtained stories from the Grangetown space of Cardiff of a bunch of males transferring massive baggage from a van to the boot of the automotive. A few of the males had been mentioned to be carrying firearms.
She mentioned officers had been dispatched to the incident and officers situated the automotive – a Seat Leon – travelling westbound on the M4 motorway.
The Seat was adopted because it left the motorway and drove into Swansea, and was tracked to Pentregethin Highway the place it was stopped.
The courtroom heard police detained the driving force – Ngoc – and searched the Seat. Within the boot they discovered two baggage for all times buying baggage which contained vacuum-packed packages of hashish. The overall weight of the hashish was 5.2kg value as much as £26,000. For all the most recent courtroom shops signal as much as our crime e-newsletter
The prosecutor mentioned when Ngoc was searched he was discovered to be carrying £395 in money and a world driver’s licence within the title of Tien Dung Nguyen however bearing the defendant’s photograph.
When the defendant’s telephone was searched officers discovered photos of hashish, messages referring to the availability of medication, and a doc containing a listing of “SA” postcodes.
The courtroom heard Ngoc answered “no remark” to all questions requested in interview however then gave officers a ready assertion during which he denied possessing hashish with intent to produce.
Nam Ngoc, of no fastened abode, had beforehand pleaded responsible to possession of hashish with intent to produce when he appeared within the dock for sentencing.
Ieuan Rees, for Ngoc, mentioned the defendant got here to UK illegally from Vietnam some three years in the past and lived in Bradford the place he labored as a painter and decorator “earlier than changing into concerned in issues which introduced him to Swansea”.
Choose Huw Rees mentioned there was no rationalization as to why the defendant had a driving licence within the title of another person however mentioned it was clear that Ngoc was within the UK illegally.
He mentioned Ngoc and “little question others” had been concerned within the provide of hashish, and he informed the defendant that the earlier he’s deported again to his residence nation the higher.
With a ten% low cost for his responsible plea Ngoc was sentenced to eight months in jail.
Defendants serve as much as half their sentences in custody earlier than being launched on licence to serve the rest in the neighborhood however the courtroom heard the Residence Workplace officers have already organized to talk to Ngoc about his standing within the nation.
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