Mark Stephens guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine

Briton was on Wednesday jailed for 25 years and fined €60,000 after a panel of jurors found him guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine in 2003. After just over 4 hours deliberating, the jurors returned a guilty verdict of 7 votes to 2, announcing Mark Stephens guilty of conspiring to import 7,100 ecstasy pills and 3 kilogrammes of cocaine in 2003.
Defence counsel Joe Brincat asked the judge to take into consideration the fact that the verdict was not a unanimous one and that Mr Stephens had spent about a year in preventive custody in Spain. Gregory Eyre, a key witness in the trial, was arrested on court orders and investigated on perjury charges after saying one thing during the compilation of evidence and another during the jury trial. Last Monday, he said that Mark Stephens was not his supplier but named another person, Andrew Woodhouse.