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Cops caught £1m cocaine courier after 120mph chase
Birmingham Mail
|July 15, 2025
A DRIVER found with 36 kilos of cocaine in the boot of his car after a 120mph police pursuit has been jailed for more than 12 years.
West Midlands Police released dash-cam and bodycam footage of David Sherratt, 48, being wrestled to the ground, after his Peugeot 3008 lost a tyre, then telling officers: “Good day at the office lads.”
The footage also shows an officer deploying a stinger device and a colleague opening the car’s boot to find two Sports Direct bags, each carrying 18kg of cocaine, with a estimated wholesale value of up to £1.3 million.
In a statement on Monday, police said road crime team officers initially tried to pull over the Peugeot, which was believed to be linked to drugs, on the M5 in the West Midlands.
This story is from the July 15, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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