Three men jailed for plot to import guns and drugs through the channel tunnel.
Three men who conspired to bring drugs and guns into the UK through the channel tunnel have been jailed for more than 40 years.
Kennedy Udo, Michael Mgbedike and Emmanuel Okubote were found guilty of their parts in the plot to import firearms and cocaine through the tunnel.
The trio were rumbled when, on August 12 2017, two loaded guns, with ammunition and a silencer were found in a car travelling from in Coquelles, France, to Folkestone, Kent.
After the car was seized almost a kilogramme of high-purity cocaine was discovered inside.
Udo, of Avery Hill Road, Eltham, and Mgbedike, of Spur Road, Orpington, were arrested at the scene.
An investigation by the Met Police discovered links to Okubote, of Evan Cook Close, Peckham, who was arrested on August 13.
Detectives established that the men had made several trips to Amsterdam, via Eurotunnel, during the months of July and August 2017.
It is believed that at least three importations of prohibited firearms and drugs had taken place.
Okubote was the ringleader, using others with little or no previous criminal history to work for him.
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Udo was jailed for eight years and six months after being found guilty of conspiracy to supply drugs and being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of goods.
Mgbedike was sentenced to eight years, having been found guilty of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Last September Okubote was found guilty of conspiracy to supply firearms with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to possess ammunition with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to supply class A drugs and possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life, he was jailed for 23-and-a-half years in prison on November 9.
DC Sarah Smart of the Met’s Operation Trident team, said: "Emmanuel Okubote, along with Michael Mgbedike and Kennedy Udo were intent on importing loaded firearms and drugs through the UK’s borders, bringing misery to the communities that we serve.
“The collaborative work between agencies, as well as between different departments and experts within the Met, has undoubtedly saved lives.
This demonstrates that law enforcement agencies will relentlessly pursue those who carry, and those who facilitate the movement of firearms and drugs into and within the UK.”
