Gda: Chinese cook with coke

A Chinese restaurant chef who spent a fortnight holidaying in Grenada has gone on trial in Britain accused of trafficking illegal drugs.

San Keung Yau is accused of smuggling seven kilogrammes of cocaine worth more than £500,000 from the Caribbean to Britain. He has denied the charges.

Prosecutors told a court in Northampton in the English midlands that San Keung Yau was just one of several gamblers down on their luck targeted by a gang of drugs smugglers.

From the Chinese restaurant where he worked as a chef and social security benefits, Yau earned just one hundred and sixty pounds a week. When two ex-policemen offered him a two-week break in Grenada along with the opportunity to make some extra money to help pay off his gambling debts, he allegedly agreed.