Christian Lee, 50, and the rest of his cronies imported and distributed at least 1.4 tonnes of cocaine from Central America between March and December 2021.

A Scottish gangster who masterminded a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America in boxes of bananas has been jailed for 20 years. Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson admitted directing the importation of the drug,

The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million’s worth of cocaine into the UK from Ecuador in consignments of bananas has been jailed for 20 years.

The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million of cocaine into Britain from Ecuador in consignments of bananas has been jailed for 20 years. The Iceman, pleaded guilty mid-trial at the High Court in Glasgow to two charges – directing a serious criminal offence of importation of cocaine,

Fugitive jailed for plot to smuggle £76m of cocaine into UK hidden in bananas - James Stevenson, known as The Iceman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Jamie Stevenson, who is described by police as a "dangerous individual", was arrested after an investigation named Operation Pepperoni. The shipment from Ecuador - which contained 952 blocks of cocaine within 119 foil packages - was addressed to a Glasgow fruit merchant.