CHICKENS STUFFED WITH DRUGS, COURT HEARS

Frozen chickens stuffed with cannabis resin were seized by customs
officials at a London warehouse.

Around UKP2.2 million of the drug were smuggled into the country from
Holland on December 1 and then held overnight in cold storage inside the
birds by an unsuspecting company in Essex.

Chicken carcasses had been ripped open and left to rot on the floor by the
time Donald Murray, 42, of Salcombe Gardens, Mill Hill, was arresetd in the
raid in Acton in December.

He admits importing the resin and also possession of another 8kg of herbal
cannabis discovered in the raid.

Another mans arrested at the scene, Peter Kelly, 42, of Daffodil Street,
Shepherds Bush, pleaded not guilty to the same offence at Southwark Crown
Court on Mondayt. The trial continues.