Karl Wilson has been jailed for 16 years for running a heroin and crack cocaine trafficking ring which moved drugs from the Midlands to Scotland A drugs baron who ran a multi-million pound smuggling ring by hiding heroin and cocaine in Asda coffee tins has been jailed for 16 years. Karl Wilson, 58, lived in a £400,000 villa in Jamaica after fleeing Britain when his Class A drugs ring was smashed in 2008. After being extradited back to Britain last year, he admitted money laundering and conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and was jailed yesterday. Wilson and his gang trafficked heroin and cocaine from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, to Aberdeen in north-east Scotland.
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Gang hid drugs in  coffee tins soaked in vinegar to avoid detection
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They also put them inside the spare wheels of hire cars to move them
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At the height of gang's activity, they were selling a kilo of drugs a week
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Drugs ring was smashed in 2008 and leader's associates were jailed
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But he fled to Jamaica where he lived in luxury villa on the profits
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He was eventually extradited back to Britain and jailed this week
@placeholder police began extradition proceedings in March 2011 and the drugs baron was arrested by Jamaican authorities almost two years later in February 2013.