Drug courier jailed for more than nine years after police stop him on motorway

Courier Anthony Warhurst, 58, was stopped on the motorway with 50kg of cocaine, worth more than £5m, in May 2023. Warhurst, of Leigh, has now been jailed for nine years and eight months. He was one of nine men sentenced after an investigation into a drug dealer in the Lake District revealed organised crime networks across the country and abroad.