Pair caught with £4m haul before co-accused makes bizarre jumper DNA claim

A £4MILLION heroin smuggler whose co-accused claimed he was framed over a borrowed jumper has been jailed for 10 years.

- BY SALLY HIND

Rajesh Bakshi, 57, of Haddington, East Lothian, was locked up after he and Jon-Paul Clark, 44, of Crosby, Liverpool, organised an importation of 40kg of heroin.

Their load, with a street value of £4million, was stopped at Dover in June 2022, where investigators found Bakshi's fingerprints and Clark's DNA on the packaging.

Bakshi admitted smuggling the class A drug.

But Clark told a trial that his DNA was only found because Bakshi was wearing his jumper.