Father and son jailed over £900,000 Glasgow Airport cannabis haul
Stephen Harding, 67, and his son Bradley, 37, were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow after admitting smuggling cannabis through Glasgow Airport from Thailand. Border Force stopped them with four cases holding dozens of vacuum-sealed packages that prosecutors valued at more than £903,000.
🇬🇧 Glasgow Airport · United Kingdom
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Arrested
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Charged
2
Prison
2 years (Stephen Harding) and 3 years and 2 months (Bradley Harding)
Stephen Harding, 67, and Bradley Harding, 37, are father and son.[1]The pair
were stopped at Glasgow Airport by Border Force officials on 23 November 2024.[1]The Hardings admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis.[1]Stephen Harding was jailed for two years.[1]Bradley Harding was sentenced to
three years and two months.[1]
The pair, who are from Tamworth in Staffordshire, had travelled from Thailand
with four cases between them.[1]The High Court in Glasgow heard there were
dozens of vacuum sealed packages of green herbal material stashed inside.[1]Prosecutor Jennifer Nicholson-White said the potential value of the drug haul
was more than £903,000.[1]Stephen replied: “I have a good idea.”[1]
One account blamed threats from loan sharks to repay a debt while another
suggested they were due to be paid £10,000 to smuggle the drugs.[1]Lord Scott
noted Stephen had previously been in the military for 14 years.[1]Bradley
Harding’s cannabis sentence will run alongside a jail-term for violence imposed
in England.[1]He is not scheduled to be freed until 2028 meaning he will
serve no extra time in prison.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Charged
2
Prison
2 years (Stephen Harding) and 3 years and 2 months (Bradley Harding)
BBC Newsbbc.comFather and son jailed after £900,000 Glasgow Airport cannabis swoop
Open questions the AI reported
No weight for the cannabis was published, only the prosecutor's valuation of more than £903,000 with the headline rounded to £900,000, so no kilograms are recorded.
No separate sentencing date was published, so 21 August 2026, the article's publication date, is used as the incident date.
Only one source for this event could be opened after searching for a second report of the same case.
The article gives no exact package count beyond dozens and no flight route beyond travel from Thailand.
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)
