A man was jailed for three years after he was found guilty of trafficking heroin which was found hidden inside a Kinder chocolate egg package.

Anthony Borg, 51, from Zebbug, was also fined €2,500 after he hid 27 sachets of heroin in the popular chocolate egg package between 1999 and 2002.

Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras heard how when the police went to his house to investigate, they came across people who had gone there to buy drugs.

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