Police found a garden sack style bag in the centre of the van belonging to Matthew Denton after it was stopped on the M6
A Skelmersdale man who duped his dad into transporting drugs in a van without his knowledge has been jailed.
Denton, 31, was a Class A drug user, and this is how he came into contact with the unknown person. He used keys that had been left in a shared place in their family home to access his dad's van and placed the bag in the vehicle, the ECHO reports. Kenneth Heckle, defending, described Denton as “naïve” and “lacking in know-how”, and said he had been taken advantage of by more sophisticated criminals. He said: “He knows that he will go straight into custody, this is a very nervous defendant to say the least.
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