Pub landlord Radcliffe Miller denies importing drugs
AN EASTON pub landlord told a jury he had cannabis on the premises when the police raided because he had confiscated it from customers. Radcliffe Miller, who ran the Coach House on Stapleton Road, denied knowledge of one 104g bag of the Class B drug but said bags weighing 46g and 238g were taken off men in the gents’ toilet.
He admitted dealing the Class B drug methylmethcathinone, known as M-cat, but said he had to take “desperate measures” for funds, including the need to help his sister in Jamaica who had cervical cancer.
It is claimed the Coach House was a key base for a gang smuggling drugs into the UK.
Radcliffe Miller and his wife Beverley Miller were landlord and landlady of the Coach House, but they were also directors of R and B Importation, importing consignments including food and drink into the UK.
It is alleged they and several associates conspired together to smuggle drugs from Jamaica.
The gang is said to have brought in 146 kilos of cannabis and 2.2 kilos of cocaine and possessed 23,880 Ecstasy tablets as well as a quantity of methylmethcathinone.
Radcliffe Miller, 43, of Stapleton Road, denies importing Class A and B drugs, possessing 23,880 E tablets and possessing a Class B drug cannabis with intent to supply.
He admits possessing the Class B drug M-cat with intent to supply and two charges of conspiring to supply M-cat.
Beverley Miller, 48, of Whitehall Road, denies importing Class B drug cannabis.
Jessica Dawson, 32, of Burghill Road, Westbury-on-Trym, denies importing a Class A and B drug as well as converting criminal property.
Samuel Adenigbagbe, 39, of Bush Grove, Stanmore in Middlesex, denies importing Class A and B drugs cocaine and cannabis.
Richard Clarke, 37, of Chesterfield Road, London, denies importing Class A drug cocaine.
Jermaine Riettie, 31, of Watson Avenue, Bristol, denies importing Class A drug cocaine, conspiring to supply Class A drug heroin, transferring £6,440 in criminal property.
He admits conspiring to supply Class B drug methylmethcathinone.
Radcliffe Miller denies involvement in the alleged enterprise, but accepts dealing M-cat.
The jury heard a secret police tape in which prosecution claims Orville Salmon, a co-accused who has admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply, panicked when he and Mr Miller saw police raiding a storage unit in Argyle Street, Bristol.
The Crown asserts the recording captures Salmon having a manic swearing fit, and saying in barely audible Patois: “Me pray to God, I hope to God they don’t search up the place.”
The case continues.
Drugs found in Bristol pub the Coach House 'were confiscated from customers'
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