Man jailed over beer excise evasionpublished at 15:21 British Summer Time 25 April 2017
Nick Wilson
BBC Radio Sheffield news
A Rotherham man has been given a 20 month jail sentence for excise duty evasion after knowingly dealing with over 25,000 litres of beer.
Brett Driver, aged 52, from Cornwell Close in Rawmarsh was caught unloading the alcohol worth nearly £30,000 from a lorry inside a Sheffield warehouse in 2013.
Driver admitted that he knew the beer "wasn't right", but said he was merely providing a temporary storage facility for an unknown third party, adding he had taken five similar deliveries over the previous eight weeks, earning £400 in cash each time.
He was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday.