Lorry driver cleared of £33m onion ring cocaine smuggling
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The drugs were found hidden in a consignment of onion rings
A man has been found not guilty of trying to smuggle cocaine worth £33m into the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
Piotr Perzenowski, 31, a lorry driver from Mazowieckie in Poland, had been charged with smuggling Class A drugs.
He was arrested at the Channel Tunnel's UK inbound zone in Coquelles, France, on 11 November 2021, when 418kg of the drug was discovered in a consignment of frozen onion rings.
He was cleared at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday after a four-day trial.
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