A Birmingham drugs gang who conspired to smuggle up to £19 million of heroin into the UK from Pakistan have been jailed for more than 130 years.
The crooks had hid the drugs inside industrial machinery shipped from Lahore, but were arrested following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The eight were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court last Friday for a total of 138 and a half years after being convicted of conspiracy to import heroin.
Ringleaders Ameran Zeb Khan, 38, Mohammed Ali, 36, and Sajid Hussain, 32, were sentenced to 22 years each.
The court previously heard the men had organised two container shipments from Lahore, via Karachi, to the London Gateway Port in February and July last year.
Border Force officers searched the July shipment, cutting open the lathes to find 165kg of powdered heroin.
