17/11/2007 00:00:00
UK: Cockle picker witness is jailed
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THE MAIN prosecution witness against the Morecambe Bay cockle picker
gangmasters has been jailed for drug offences.
Guo Lin was arrested after being found tending a cannabis factory in St
Helens and while on bail was caught in car containing £60,000 worth of
skunk cannabis.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that 34-year-old Lin had fled China because
he was persecuted after falling foul of their laws by having two
children. He joined the illegal economy in this country and ended up
picking cockles in Morecambe Bay on the fateful night.
He became the main prosecution witness in the resulting trial and spent
a week in the witness box.
Lin, of no fixed address, was convicted of cultivating cannabis and
admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply and was sentenced to
seven months imprisonment.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13013
Author:
Liverpool Echo via UKCIA
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