James Stevenson, also known as The Iceman, was described as operating in “much the same way as the Sopranos ran their business as shown on television”.

A Scottish gangster who orchestrated a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America in boxes of bananas has been jailed for 20 years. Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson admitted directing the importation of the drug, which was seized by Border Force teams at Dover in September 2020.

The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million’s worth of cocaine into the UK from Ecuador in consignments of bananas has been jailed for 20 years.

One of the UK's most wanted criminals, who masterminded a plot to smuggle £76 million worth of cocaine into Britain hidden in banana shipments from Ecuador, has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

Jamie Stevenson, who is described by police as a "dangerous individual", was arrested after an investigation named Operation Pepperoni. The shipment from Ecuador - which contained 952 blocks of cocaine within 119 foil packages - was addressed to a Glasgow fruit merchant.

James Stevenson, 59, known as 'The Iceman', pleaded guilty midway through a trial at the High Court in Glasgow to two charges: of directing a serious criminal offence of importation of cocaine, and of being involved in organised crime through the production and supply of etizolam, often known as street Valium, the Daily Record reports.

A British drug lord known as “The Iceman” has been jailed for 20 years after admitting to a plot to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £76million through crates of bananas. James Stevenson, 59, pleaded guilty mid-trial at the High Court in Glasgow,