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Liverpool: Gang smuggled £2m cannabis in mattresses - BBC News

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Gang smuggled 2 m cannabis worth 2 m from Canada into Britain hidden in mattresses.

334kg of drugs concealed in shipping container and sent by boat to Liverpool docks.

But Cheshire Police were waiting and arrested three men in January .

Weiji Chen , 29 , John Kinsella , 34 , and his brother Luke , 23 , jailed for seven years and six months .

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