Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA pensioner who became a drugs mule to pay off a debt to gangsters has been jailed. A court heard how Christopher Dunkin, 67, accepted a £10,000 loan from criminals after an injury cost him his job as a scaffolder. He was forced to pay it off by transporting drugs. Dunkin, from Middlesbrough, was jailed for four years after he admitted possessing class-A and class-B drugs with intent to supply. Prosecutor David Lees told Manchester crown court: “He was scared for himself and his family.”

Source: Daily Mirror May 23, 2019 18:00 UTC