A 54-year Gozitan, Joseph Buttigieg, was this morning jailed for 11 years and fined €25,600 after he admitted to imported 65 grams of cocaine in March 1999.

The court was told that Mr Buttigieg had travelled to Canada and then crossed over to the US, where he bought the drug and mailed it to Malta before he himself returned.

Mr Buttigieg pleaded guilty instead of undergoing trial by jury.

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