A father and son who tried to smuggle £900,000 of cannabis into Scotland have been sentenced to a total of more than five years.
Stephen Harding, 67, and Bradley Harding, 37, were stopped at Glasgow Airport by Border Force officials on November 23, 2024.
The pair - who had travelled from Thailand - had four cases between them.
The luggage was checked and the dad was asked did he know what was inside.
He replied: "I have a good idea."
The High Court in Glasgow heard there were dozens of vacuum sealed packages of green herbal material stashed inside the cases.
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Prosecutor Jennifer Nicholson-White said the potential value of the huge drug haul was more than £903,000.
The Hardings, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, were today sentenced having earlier pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
The hearing was told of mixed accounts of why they got involved in the crime.
One claimed it was because of threats from loan sharks to repay a debt while another suggested they were due to be paid £10,000 to traffick the drugs.
Remarking on Stephen Harding, Lord Scott said he noted he had previously been in the military for 14 years "which made it all the more sad" he now found himself in the dock of the high court at such an age.
The dad was jailed for two years.
Bradley meantime was sentenced to three years and two months.
However, it will run alongside a jail-term for violence imposed in England, which is not scheduled to see him freed until 2028 meaning he will serve no extra time behind bars.
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