Drug smuggling cricketer jailed
Former England cricketer Chris Lewis has been jailed for 13 years for smuggling cocaine into Britain.
His co-accused, ex-basketball player Chad Kirnon, was given the same sentence at Croydon Crown Court.
The pair were found guilty of carrying a liquid form of the drug into Gatwick Airport on a flight from St Lucia.
Cans of fruit and vegetable juice seized by officials last December were found to contain dissolved cocaine with a street value of more than £140,000.
Both men had denied a charge of smuggling Class A drugs.
Lewis, 41, of Bruce Road, Brent, north London, claimed to have been on holiday in St Lucia and that he was unaware his luggage contained the drugs.
Kirnon, 27, of Carnegie Street, Islington, north London, was a former London Towers basketball player, who was stopped by customs officers after returning to the UK on the same flight as Lewis, on 8 December.
Read full article: BBC
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