The grandad was caged for eight-and-a-half years for his role in a drug gang
A grandad lorry driver has been caged for eight-and-a-half years for his role in a drug gang running an "industrial scale" amphetamine factory in Motherwell .
The following month, more than 560 kilos of alpha-phenylacetoacetamide , a substance used in the production of amphetamine, was found in a lorry which the Nation Crime Agency had discovered was loaded on the orders of Feerick. Liverpool Crown Court was previously told how the gang was involved in the importation of drugs "from Europe and beyond" and had a "secret laboratory" in Scotland.
Covert surveillance captured a meeting between Feerick and King in November 2020, with the former arrested shortly afterwards while driving a lorry on the M6 southbound. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.
He also pointed to a number of health difficulties experienced by the "loving father and grandfather", who suffers from diabetes and has undergone treatment for an eye condition.
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