Locked up: The people jailed in Bristol in February 2021
We compile this month s list of people we reported on who were sent to prison after being convicted of crimes ranging from assaults and drug offences to rape and manslaughter
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Every week, Bristol Live reports from the city s courts.
This reporting forms an important part of the UK s open justice system, that justice can be seen to be done.
Some of the key benefits of open justice include ensuring public confidence and respect in democracy and the administration of justice, as well as deterring people from committing crimes and thereby the details of those crimes becoming public knowledge.
A MAN from Olveston man has been jailed for his part in a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £500k, hidden in protein powder, into the UK. Bertram Jack Fallon, 31, and Arron James Collins, 35, and used encrypted messaging services to arrange the importation of five kilograms of cocaine - which Border Force officers seized at London Gateway Parcel Hub in January last year. The National Crime Agency uncovered communications between the pair on the EncroChat and Wickr platforms involving arrangements for shipments of the drug from Amsterdam to the UK. At Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday, Fallon was jailed for six years and six months for conspiracy to import cocaine and for failing to disclose the PINs for his mobile phones.
Bid to smuggle five kilos of cocaine from Holland to Bedminster is foiled
Bertam Fallon and Aaron Collins jailed in bust by National Crime Agency
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Two Bristol men caught smuggling cocaine into the UK have been handed 16 years jail.