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- UK: Police Swoop On Stunned Couple After Sniffer Dog Mistakes
Daily Mail, 26 Dec 2011 - As drug raid targets go, they were hardly the usual suspects. Chris and Anne Vincent, a respectable couple in their late fifties, answered the door of their village home to find police demanding access to their garden.
- UK: Drug Smuggler Pardoned After 20 Years In Jail
Yorkshire Post, 26 Dec 2011 - CAMPAIGNERS described a decision by the president of the Philippines to pardon a drug smuggler from Yorkshire as "the best Christmas present ever" after he has been languishing in squalid conditions while in jail for nearly two decades. It emerged yesterday that President Benigno Aquino III had granted Thalidomide victim William "Billy" Burton, 48, who is originally from Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the pardon from the life sentence on the grounds of his deteriorating health.
- UK: Briton Jailed For Drug Offences In Philippines Pardoned
The Guardian, 26 Dec 2011 - Campaigners Welcome Decision to Release William Burton, Caught Smuggling Cannabis in 1992, on Health Grounds Campaigners have welcomed the news that a Briton jailed for drug offences in the Philippines nearly 20 years ago has been pardoned from his life sentence.
- UK: Sniffer Dogs To Join Christmas Police Patrols In Hull City
Hull Daily Mail, 19 Dec 2011 - SNIFFER dogs will be used to catch revellers carrying drugs on Christmas nights out in Hull. It comes after officers revealed 53 per cent of people brought into police custody for carrying out violent crimes tested positive for cocaine or opiates this year.
- UK: 150 Years In Prison: 83 Dealers Off The Streets In
The Star, 19 Dec 2011 - THE BIGGEST police drugs operation South Yorkshire has ever seen - set up to tackle gang violence and murder - was hailed a success today after seven more dealers were locked up. The operation, which began in August 2009 and has now concluded has seen 83 men, women and juveniles put behind bars for a total of around 150 years or given community sentences.
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