THIRTEEN seizures of an increasingly popular drug were made in Guernsey in the last five years, adding up to a street value of more than £10,000.

TWO men were jailed for a total of nearly nine years for conspiring to send heroin to Guernsey by post.

ALLOWING a gift-wrapped package of drugs valued at roughly £400,000 to be brought into the island by his girlfriend led to a man being sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Royal Court yesterday.

A DRUG importer who smuggled a class A drug into Guernsey to ‘ease the pain of his friend’ has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison.

A FORMER detective and his wife had their eight-year sentence for drug importation and money laundering reduced by a year by the Guernsey Court of Appeal yesterday.

A GROUP has been launched to investigate the growing number of vulnerable children whose parents have drink and drug problems, mental health issues or have been victims of domestic abuse.

A DRUG importer who claimed the powder he bought over the internet was a fertiliser for bonsai trees has been sent to prison for six-and-a-half years.

A HAMPSHIRE woman sobbed as she was acquitted of importing drugs worth more than £400,000 by the narrowest margin.

THOUSANDS of Ecstasy tablets bearing the Olympic Rings logo, with a local street value of up to £38,810, were found in the boot of a car stopped by Customs.

A GUILTY verdict was delivered yesterday in the case of man who denied importing a class B drug by post.