by Martin Jeffries

Two Hungarian lorry drivers have been jailed after they were caught trying to smuggle drugs with an estimated street value of £1.3 million through a Kent port.

Sandor Szabo, 45, and Csaba Hollo, 36, were stopped by UK Border Agency officers at the Port of Ramsgate in September 2009.

A search of the lorry they were driving revealed around 132kg of amphetamine hidden in several brown boxes.

They were attempting to smuggle the Class B drug into the country under the cover of a legitimate load of roller shelf units destined for the University of Cambridge library and paper for Spicers in Sawston, near Cambridge.

Szabo and Hollo, who are both from Budapest, were charged with being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition of controlled drugs.

They were found guilty at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday. Both were sentenced to six years imprisonment.