Jaguar car loaded to the brim with heroin valued at £37.2m seized in London

It was indeed a novel method of smuggling heroin into Britain news.sky.com. It was in a Jaguar that had been shipped to the UK from Pakistan – the car was due to be delivered to a repairer in north London. However, one of the suspects directed the delivery driver to take it to a garage in Dagenham instead.

Investigators from the NCA had got an inkling of what was happening and had kept a watch as the car arrived during the early hours of 7 December. The two suspects had left the scene but were arrested later they drove through Luton. The Jaguar was seized by police who visited the garage forecourt.
The two men have now been jailed over a plot to import heroin worth £37.2m in a specially adapted car.

As reported, the Specialist Border Force search officers discovered 316 packages of heroin with a total weight of 230-Kg that had been stuffed into the bumpers, wheel arches, dashboard, central console, spare wheel compartment, engine and back seats of the Jaguar.
It has been revealed that the drugs were concealed in virtually every spare bit of space – in fact, crucial parts of the vehicle, like electrics, had been removed to create more space.