Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson was locked up at the High Court in Glasgow today.
A Scots crime boss who masterminded a plot to smuggle £100m of cocaine from Ecuador in boxes of bananas has been jailed for 20 years.The 59-year-old, who entered a guilty plea mid-trial, had faced 14 charges relating to the importation of class-A drugs.
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