UK couple sentenced to 17 years in prison for involvement with £1million MDMA deal

Be careful who you befriend on holiday. A couple from the UK have been jailed for their part in a £1million MDMA deal after meeting an Ibizan drug dealer.

Leah Parkes, 28, and Charles Hendrie, 30, have been sentenced to a combined 17 years in prison after they were charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Another man, Abib Asfour, was also sentenced to 10 years on the same charge, dating from October 1, 2013 to November 8, 2013.

According to reports, Parkes and Hendrie began selling recreational drugs after meeting Asfour while on holiday in Ibiza, continuing to do so once they returned to the UK.

In November 2013, the pair were stopped by police on the M6 motorway after they'd taken part in the drug deal at a Holiday Inn Express in Staffordshire. They were caught with a suitcase containing 16 packages of MDMA after Asfour reportedly left the hotel with three kilos worth of the batch.

Detective Constable Simon Bowden, of Staffordshire Police, said: "Although the defendants do not live in Staffordshire they used the area as a central meeting point to exchange, and deal, a large quantity of MDMA.

"Their arrest, and a detailed investigation, led to the arrest of three other people suspected of being involved in drug crime. We also stopped 34.8kg of MDMA, with a street value of £1.05m, from getting on to the streets."

Another couple at the same trial were cleared of the same charge.

At the end of 2013, two British Ibiza workers, the 'Peru Two', pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges.

[Via: the Mirror]

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