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'Lovesick' Manchester Airport smuggler caught with £900K of drugs in scooter

Casimiro De Lemos-Francisco, 56, had become "enamoured" with a woman on Facebook "who probably doesn't exist", a court heard, when he tried to smuggle cocaine through Manchester Airport in a mobility scooter

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