A pensioner who tried to smuggle £640,000 worth of cocaine into the UK by concealing it in his mobility scooter has been jailed.
Ronald Lord, 71, was handed a six-year prison sentence after being found with eight kilograms of the class A drug in the back seat panel of his scooter when he was stopped at Gatwick Airport on February 7.
Border force officers discovered the drug after they performed an X-ray on the vehicle, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
The pensioner, from Montreal, Canada, claimed he was coming to the UK for sightseeing after a seven-day holiday to Barbados.
He said he did not know how the drug had got into his scooter and denied any knowledge of it.
