£250K DRUGS BARON DODGES PRISON
Daily Record|October 17, 2024
Cops caught property tycoon in M-way bust
RUTH SUTER and CRAIG MCGLASSON
£250K DRUGS BARON DODGES PRISON

A FORMER shopkeeper turned drugs kingpin who was busted by cops on a cross-Border run has avoided prison.

Islaam Bashir, 34, was transporting £250,000 of cannabis loaded into suitcases when police pulled over his Audi A4 on the M6 between Kendal and Sedbergh on July 4.

Driver Bashir, and his passenger Andrew McQuade, 30, were travelling to Scotland with the illegal haul.

This story is from the October 17, 2024 edition of Daily Record.

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