Birmingham head of drugs gang convicted after smuggling cocaine in shipment of bananas

The leader of an international drugs gang which tried to smuggle millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the UK in a shipment of bananas has been convicted.

Sajid Ali, 56, from Birmingham, directed Robert Ball, Mirgent Shahu, Arman Kaviani and Florjan Ibra, to move a shipping container which had arrived from Ecuador, with cocaine concealed inside the roof, from London Gateway Port to an industrial estate in Coventry.