Cocaine Guitar Man Hits Bum Note

A cocaine smuggler who imported £250,000 worth of the party drug concealed inside a guitar struck the wrong chord with watching police who swooped on the unsuspecting dealer.

Andrew Sweeney, 30, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to conspiring to supply cocaine and was jailed for eight years.

Around one kilo of the Class A drug had been dissolved in a resin substance and hidden in the hollow body of the guitar, which Sweeney had arranged to be posted from Ecuador to his Shepherds Bush home.

City of London Police arrested Sweeney (pictured above with the guitar) as he signed for receipt of the parcel.

The drug was found to be of extremely high purity, and a search of Sweeney's home uncovered diluting equipment, giving the cocaine an estimated street value of £250,000.

DCI David Evans said "We are pleased with the outcome of this case, and the sentence Mr Sweeney now faces.

"His guilty plea reflected the sheer weight of evidence found against him, following a comprehensive investigation that brought together several areas of the City of London Police force."