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Soldier jailed for trafficking drugs to the Isle of Man
A soldier was sentenced to prison after taking a boat to the Isle of Man with £284,000 worth of cannabis concealed inside a vehicle.
On January 27, Stoke-on-Trent resident Jordan Brayford left the car in a lane before getting drunk.
The drugs were eventually discovered by authorities after his arrest the next day.
The quantity indicated that the 29-year-old “must be close to individuals involved in organized crime,” according to Deemster Graeme Cook, who sentenced him to five years and one month in prison.
Brayford, who enlisted in the Royal Logistics Corps in February 2022, was reportedly supposed to return to his barracks on January 3 following a holiday vacation but failed to do so.
The afternoon boat brought Brayford from Whitridge Grove in Bentilee to the island in a Mercedes van, but he left it in Greeba so he could go out drinking.
He went to the police station after spending the night at the Ramsey Park Hotel and told investigators he couldn’t recall where his van was.
He claimed to have left it parked after getting off the boat and used a mountain bike to travel to various places before giving the bike away to a young person while intoxicated.
He was detained after police systems revealed he had been missing from the Army.
The keys to the van were still in the ignition when it was subsequently discovered damaged and abandoned in a road.
The cannabis was found in two hidden recesses in the van’s floor, in 30 different vacuum-sealed packets, according to the evidence presented in court.
A remote control was used to access the compartments, and it was discovered on Brayford.
He admitted to importing marijuana and to having it in his possession with the purpose to distribute it.
In order to assist pay off a debt, Brayford agreed to drive the van to the island; however, he was unaware of how much cannabis was inside and made a “catastrophic error,” according to his defense attorney.
Brayford’s longtime dream of joining the Army had been “ripped away by his own folly,” he continued.
Deemster Cook, who sentenced Brayford, said that the circumstances surrounding his involvement were “bizarre,” and that it was lucky that the drugs in the van were class B rather than class A.
The deemster also gave Brayford an exclusion order, which forbade him from going back to the island for five years following his release.
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