Two students jailed after importing more than £1m of cannabis to university digs as part of a global drug empire

TWO students helped import much than £1million of cannabis to assemblage digs arsenic portion of a planetary cause empire.

Jinshuo Dong, 24, and Jingshu Wang, 28, paid different students to person 1.5kg drug parcels.

They picked up galore but were stopped from getting others by halls of residence staff.

Border Force, alerted to deliveries from Canada to Leeds, tipped disconnected section cops who identified the brace from CCTV.

In each 63 parcels were seized.

The brace admitted cause offences and were jailed for 3 years astatine the city’s crown court.

Mitigating, Joseph Hart said “naive and lonely” Dong got progressive for glamour and status.

Judge Mansell praised officers progressive successful the lawsuit astatine their sentencing, saying the brace had recovered a “novel method” for flooding the marketplace with amerciable drugs.

He said: “It was a precise effectual and well-executed cognition that brought an extremity to a precise lucrative skunk cannabis business.

“It was a caller method for flooding the market. The importation of cannabis antecedently successful lorries from the continent has go acold little prevalent.

“This method was caller and I commend the squad for the investigation.”