Two men have been jailed after being caught in Ealing in possession of 20kg worth of cocaine with a street value of over £14 million. 

Richard Johnson, 47, of Foster Way, Sheffield, and Kamil Sokolowski, 33, a Polish national were sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday 5th May, with both jailed for six years and nine months. 

The pair were arrested after police officers saw a box with some of the drugs being transferred between a lorry and a van in a slip-road near the Target Roundabout in Northolt after midnight on 25th November 2022. 

The box was found to contain 20kg of cocaine and another six boxes totalling 141kg were found in the lorry which had come to the United Kingdom through the Channel Tunnel three hours earlier. 

Johnson and Sokolowski attempted to run away when they spotted the officers but were caught and arrested. 

Detective Constable Leon Ure, from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, said: "I am certain these drugs would have ended up in the hands of dangerous criminal gangs and would have resulted in violent crime and anti-social behaviour. 

"These men thought they have covered their tracks by using an encrypted device and by meeting at a secluded location, however we still caught them, and I hope this acts as a warning to anyone else involved in transporting and selling drugs." 

Johnson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and Sokolowski pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine. 

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