Sajad Hashimi and his wife Zerka Maranay's smuggling operation came to light after a drone crashed in the grounds of one of the prisons they targeted.
A married couple ran a smuggling operation using drones in jails across Britain - including HMP Edinburgh . Sajad Hashimi and his wife Zerka Maranay made more than 100 drone drops into 11 jails and young offenders' institutions in just over a year.
Maranay, 28, assisted her husband by hiring at least 20 cars costing around £17,000. The prisons targeted included Onley, The Mount, Maidstone, High Down, Guys Marsh, Garth, Wormwood Scrubs, Highpoint, Downview YOI, Brixton and Edinburgh. Hashimi admitted to conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs into prisons and conspiring to convey List B prohibited articles into prisons. Maranay confessed to conspiring to convey prohibited articles into prisons and money laundering.
Despite crashing the drone, Hashimi acquired another one and continued flying packages into prisons. The court heard on August 17 last year, Kent Police attended HMP Maidstone following reports of a drone flying over the prison.
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