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<h1><span style="color:#330c0c;">Border guards foil escape bid as drugs baron tries to flee the country in THIS X-ray picture of a Hungarian lorry bound for the Continent </span></h1>
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<li class=""><span style="color:#330c0c;"><strong>Tahir Mahmood tried to escape UK by hiding in the cab of Hungarian HGV</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="color:#330c0c;"><strong id="ext-gen87">Border control staff found him huddled up in the lorry&#8217;s cab at Folkestone</strong></span></li>
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<p>Border guards found a drugs baron trying to flee the country in a Hungarian lorry by using X-ray equipment at the Channel Tunnel. Tahir Mahmood, 30, went on the run after becoming spooked when the co-conspirators in his illegal enterprise were arrested. He was jailed for eight years for his role in a drugs ring that harboured almost a million pounds worth of heroin, operating throughout England and Scotland.</p>
<h5><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-6406" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3306e9ed00000578-3532724-jailed_drug_dealer_tahir_mahmood_was_found_by_border_control_off-a-21_1460306709509.jpg" alt="3306e9ed00000578-3532724-jailed_drug_dealer_tahir_mahmood_was_found_by_border_control_off-a-21_1460306709509" width="556" height="685" /></strong><br />
<strong>Jailed: Drug dealer Tahir Mahmood was found by border control officers using X-ray equipment</strong></h5>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mahmood was discovered by the border control team at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone, Kent, in October, after evading police for a month.His fellow drug dealers Ajmal Aziz, 34, of Halifax and Alan Gee, 28, of Middlesborough, were also jailed for 10-and-a-half and eight years respectively at Leeds Crown Court.</p>
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<h5 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6409" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3306e9f500000578-3532724-image-m-9_1460305629184.jpg" alt="3306e9f500000578-3532724-image-m-9_1460305629184" width="634" height="349" />Caught: This is the X-ray image</strong> showing Mahmood hiding in the cab of the HGV while attempting to flee the UK</h5>
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