Article: The drugs baron and an [pounds sterling]11m sting; Career criminal ran smuggling plot from villa on Costa del Sol.

Byline: NEALE ADAMS

A DRUGS baron plotted to import cannabis worth [pounds sterling]11million concealed in shipments of linen.

From his villa on the Costa del Sol, Daniel Redmond planned to smuggle the drugs from the Far East with a worldwide gang network.

But the career criminal was captured after police infiltrated his gang while wearing recording equipment.

Dublin-born Redmond, 60, drove a Jaguar and a Mercedes and sported plenty of jewellery. He wore the very best in designer clothes and took holidays in the West Indies.

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