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Returning from a ski festival in Austria in 2016, Tim Kerr was stopped by police at Manchester Airport .

Then 28, the doctor had been working with university friend Adrian Tickridge-Day , buying cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine on the so-called 'dark web'.

At the time that customs officers had intercepted a package containing 220 ecstasy tablets on March 29, and quickly traced it to Day.

The Chester Standard reported: "The men were stopped at Manchester Airport in April that year as they returned from a ski resort festival in Austria and Day was arrested after he was found with £2,000 in cash and two mobile phones.

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"A search of his Chester home revealed a stash of class A and B drugs and paraphernalia such as snap bags and digital

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