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Five people have been charged after hundreds of kilos of cannabis with a street value of £3.9 million were seized at Stansted Airport. Two shipments of the drug, totalling 390kg (860lb or 61.4st), were intercepted by Border Force officers on January 26 and 27. A previous shipment of 300kg of a substance believed to be cannabis was delivered to an address in Hayes, west London, on January 11 and was linked to the airport seizures. On February 1, Met police officers executed warrants at industrial units in Hayes and Northolt. Three men and a juvenile were arrested in Hayes. One man was arrested …

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