A man has been jailed for eight years for conspiring to smuggle £5million worth of cocaine into the UK.

Jason Young, 37, of Upton Road South, Bexley, is one of four men sentenced to a total of 52 years at the Old Bailey for their roles in the plot to deal 43 kilos of the Class A drug.

Mr Young was arrested last August following a covert police operation which tracked the four men to one of their exchanges in Dartford.

Young, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Det Insp Grant Johnson of the specialist crime directorate said: “In this case, class A drugs with an estimated value of £5 million have been taken off the streets and the perpetrators punished for their crime.”

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