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Tunnel, that the conspiracy was uncovered. A freight company in Slough was dealing with a lorry which had collected a pallet shipped from a company in Holland. Because the curtain on the side of the lorry had been slashed, staff decided to check the load. On inspection of a crate, they found a box containing a lawnmower with a hidden compartment containing 76 black packages. Testing revealed they contained £2m of extremely high purity MDMA – ecstasy. The packages had been addressed to a courier business in Stockport. In November, National Crime Agency officers identified 14 similar deliveries to the address made between July and October 2015 whose labels indicate Snazel had shipped 1,033kg of drugs into the country with a potential street value of between £20m and £25m. CCTV footage showed Derek Maguire, from Wythenshawe, collecting the fourteenth delivery 10 minutes after it was dropped off. In November 2015, officers raided the unit in Stockport, seizing notes and a mobile phone.
They also searched Maguire’s home in Wythenshawe, and found records for a self-storage unit in School Lane Trading Estate, Hazel Grove, where more than half-a-million pounds’ worth of drugs were found.
These included 24kg of MDMA, ketamine and cannabis labelled by weight and type.
Phone records showed that Snazel and Maguire had been in regular contact, and that Snazel had made frequent trips to Holland.