{"id":3483,"date":"2008-10-20T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/boxer-shorts-drug-smuggler-jailed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:23:08","slug":"boxer-shorts-drug-smuggler-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/boxer-shorts-drug-smuggler-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Boxer shorts\u2019 drug smuggler jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Six and a half years for Birmingham man<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"268\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ZarebHussain_180x232.jpg\"\/>A BIRMINGHAM painter and decorator who tried to smuggle more than \u00a350,000 worth of heroin through Birmingham International Airport in his boxer shorts has been jailed.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zareb Hussain, 38, was arrested by officers from the UK Agency Border when he arrived at Birmingham International Airport on a flight from Islamabad earlier this year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Heroin and cannabis were found concealed in the boxer shorts he was wearing while a search of his luggage found a further amount of heroin carefully placed within two DVD players<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Hussain, of Barrows Road, Sparkhill, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court after evidence produced in court proved his fingerprints were on the drugs packages.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was sentenced to six and a half years in jail. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Hussain was detained at Birmingham International Airport on 21 May as he returned to the city from a trip to Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Officers conducted a search of Hussain\u2019s luggage and found two DVD players in his suitcase. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The DVD players were X-rayed. Nestled in the wiring, four packages were identified in the first player and five packages in the second. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A further three grams of heroin and a small quantity of cannabis were found concealed in the boxer shorts Hussain was wearing.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The drugs were valued at \u00a350,000, although this would have doubled or even trebled once \u2018cut\u2019 by drug dealers as it hit the UK streets. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>John Theobald, Senior Investigation officer for HM Revenue &amp; Customs said: \u201cThis latest prosecution will serve as a deterrent to those contemplating this serious form of criminality \u2013 you will lose your liberty and spend significant time behind bars.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six and a half years for Birmingham man A BIRMINGHAM painter and decorator who tried to smuggle more than \u00a350,000 worth of heroin through Birmingham International Airport in his boxer shorts has been jailed. &#13; Zareb Hussain, 38, was arrested by officers from the UK Agency Border when he arrived at Birmingham International Airport on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}