Malaysian man jailed 18 months over 10 kg cannabis at Edinburgh Airport
Border Force officers stopped Yong Keh Kee, 28, arriving from Madrid on 28 April 2017 and found ten vacuum-packed packages of cannabis in his suitcases. Valued at £100,000, the haul led to an 18-month sentence at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 23 August.
Yong Keh Kee, a 28-year-old from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, was stopped by Border Force officers at Edinburgh Airport as he travelled from Madrid.[1][2]Officers examined two of his suitcases and found ten vacuum-packed packages of cannabis leaves wrapped in towels.[1][2]
The Home Office put the street value of the roughly ten kilos at £100,000.[1][2]After the seizure, Border Force passed the investigation to the National Crime Agency.[1]
Yong was sentenced to 18 months at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday 23 August 2017 for attempting to smuggle the cannabis.[1][2]Border Force Scotland head Murdo MacMillan said officers’ vigilance had kept a significant quantity of drugs off the streets, and the NCA said it was determined to protect the public from drug trafficking.[1]
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Home Office handout photo of the vacuum-packed cannabis found wrapped in towels in the luggage.Photo details
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
