Customs sting find clocks filled with opium delivered to Huddersfield house

May 20 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A BIRKBY man is on trial after a customs sting centring on £30,000 of opium hidden in ornamental clocks.

A jury at Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday how five kilos of the Class A drug were found inside the clocks in a package addressed to the home of Dalton woman Cheryl Page.

The trial concerns her ex-boyfriend, Ibrahim Yusif, of Scholes Road in Birkby, who has pleaded not guilty to being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition on the importation of goods namely opium.

The drugs were discovered last July, by officers monitoring shipments through East Midlands Airport.

Prosecutor Diana Maudslay said the package was sent from Turkey and addressed to the home of Cheryl Page – Yusif’s then girlfriend – at her home in Langdale Drive, Dalton.

Two days after the opium was discovered by customs, an undercover officer delivered the parcel to the Dalton address.

The court heard that the officer left a card at the house after he initially tried to deliver the package.

When Miss Page returned home, she contacted her boyfriend Yusif.