Former Tunnock’s worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation | 57FJGPC | 2024-05-01 06:08:01

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A FORMER Tunnock's worker has been jailed for running a huge drugs-smuggling operation.

Bailey Highton, 23, gave up making Caramel Wafers and Tea Cakes for the biscuit firm to traffick £3.6million worth of heroin and cocaine.

Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Bailey Highton trafficked millions of pounds worth of drugs in Scotland and England
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Highton had more than £800k in cash despite living in a small flat in Blantyre
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Former Tunnock's worker jailed for running a huge cross-border drugs smuggling operation
Highton swapped making Tunnock's tea cakes for dealing

The baby-faced dealer was "very active" in Glasgow and Aberdeen and made drop-offs in London, Kent, Liverpool, Essex, Manchester and Birmingham.

He was also in contact with a druglord in Spain and Dubai.

But Highton was busted after cops in Cumbria found his fingerprints on a drugs package linked to local crime boss Robert Smith.

They found detailed records of deals on a phone and he even used his own car for smuggling.

Carlisle Crown Court heard he handled £823,805 in cash despite living in a small flat in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.

Highton's defence lawyer Andrew Evans said: "He worked at a factory in Uddingston making Tunnock's Tea Cakes."

After pleading guilty to five drugs charges he was caged for a total of seven years, 10 months.

Recorder Julian Shaw told Highton: "The sheer level and scale of the industrial supply you were engaged in was shocking."

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