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A £4milion heroin smuggler from Scotland has been jailed after his co-accused claimed he was framed over a borrowed jumper. ‌

Rajesh Bakshi, 57, of Haddington, East Lothian, was locked up for a decade on Thursday after he and Jon-Paul Clark, 44, of Crosby, Liverpool, organised an importation of 40kg of heroin. ‌

Their load, with a street value of £4 million, was stopped at Dover in June 2022, where investigators found Bakshi’s fingerprints and Clark’s DNA on the packaging. ‌

Bakshi admitted smuggling the class A drug , but Clark told a trial that his DNA was only found because Bakshi was wearing his jumper.

Clark was convicted and jailed for nine years at Canterbury Crown Court after his excuses were dismissed by the jury.

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