How master manipulators like ‘Tommy Boyo’ dupe couriers into smuggling guns and drugs, and why secret vehicle compartments are being banned

Every day lorries, vans, cars and coaches trundle through Britain’s ports carrying legit cargo and passengers into the country from Europe.

But last week Kasha Sanderson (pictured) was jailed for 9 years after the car she was driving was stopped at Dover and found to contain secret electronically-operated compartments which contained pistols, sub-machine guns, ammunition and 5 kilos of heroin.

In today’s Substack I will tell you in detail about how a charmer known only as “Tommy Boyo” manipulated Sanderson, and how successive governments have mulled over laws which would ban what are known as vehicle hides.