Prosecutors said "blocks and blocks and blocks" of cocaine were found at a flat in LeedsA drugs ring smuggled cocaine worth more than £1bn into the UK in boxes of frozen chicken, a court has heard.
Cherie-Anne Rayner, 29, Liam Harrington, 38, Megan Budden, 22, and Mazafer Hussain, 43, are alleged to have had trusted roles in a "high-end" criminal network which imported high-purity cocaine from a Mexican cartel and sold it on to dealers.'Huge quantities' A further 57kg of cocaine worth £5.8m was found stashed in holdalls, plastic blags, cupboards and the bedroom in Ms Budden's flat in The Crescent, Dewsbury, during a raid on 10 November, the court heard.
Mr Hussain, of Foxton Road, Birmingham, is alleged to have worked at the Fendi organisation's distribution "hub" - an industrial unit in Spring Street, Redditch, which the court heard received deliveries of cocaine concealed in pallets of imported frozen chicken.