A man who wrapped €560,000 of cocaine in carbon paper in an attempt to dodge X-ray detection has been jailed for six years.
Carlos Gutierrez Lopez, 46-year-old Spanish national, was arrested at Belfast International Airport after customs officials found 1.3kg of cocaine hidden in the lining of his suitcase.
He had arrived into Northern Ireland on a flight from Amsterdam.
During routine questioning officers became suspicious of his reasons for travel, and a luggage search revealed the cocaine hidden in the lining of his suitcase.
The package had been covered with carbon paper in an attempt to hide it from X-ray detection.
Lopez was sentenced to six years in jail after what a customs official said had been a misguided effort to provide a cloak of invisibility from detection.
