DRUG LORD SENT COCAINE SHIPMENT TO WRONG COUNTRY

A British drug lord nicknamed the “Escobar of Essex” because of his links to Colombian cartels has been jailed for 16 years after he sent a huge cocaine shipment to the wrong country. Three years ago, Jonathan Parkhill, 55, mistakenly sent 30kg of cocaine to South Africa when it was supposed to go to Germany. Officials caught him through his encrypted chat EncroChat as he hastily tried to fix his mistake. The German shipment was seized in 2020, and Parkhill was arrested in Heathrow Airport after returning from Colombia in 2021. Sources say Parkhill “is one of the biggest drugs traffickers caught in the UK for a long time.”
* All they know is, mail delivery in South Africa has never been faster.
* They used to call him the “Escobar of Essex,” but now, just for fun, they call him the “Magellan of Manchester.”
* Well, heck, he was only off by 5,000 miles.
* Can he take geography classes in prison?
* So, if the German cocaine went to South Africa, what was in the South African package that went to Germany? Safari hats?
* This is the plot of one of those British sitcoms with the goofy name, right? Like, “Up Your Nose, Gov’nor” or “Toot and Crumpets” or “Are You Being Snorted?”