A man has been jailed for trying to smuggle £17,500 worth of cocaine into Jersey.
Findlay Mackay, 27, from Dumfries, Scotland, was arrested on suspicion of importing controlled drugs after arriving at the island’s airport with his girlfriend on a flight from Glasgow on 2 October.
Jersey’s government said after swabs taken from his belongings came back positive for cocaine, Mackay told officers “I have an ounce inside me”, which led to five packages with a combined weight of 68.71g (2.4oz) of the drug being found.
During a hearing at Jersey Royal Court, Mackay was jailed for four years and four months.
