An Albanian has told the court in Great Britain that he was under pressure from a group of Albanian traffickers, as he called the British police to save him from the situation he was in.
For Muhamet Halil, it all started last year, when while he was driving a Mercedes on Barry's Cardiff street, he crashed into a person on a motorcycle, throwing him to the other side of the road and causing him multiple injuries. Halili said at the time in court that he stopped the car for a moment but then gave it gas and sped away.
The judge decided that the 36-year-old Albanian should be released with a tracking ring on his leg, while the investigation into the accident was ongoing.
But 6 months later, he called the British police asking them to save him because some people in the apartment were trying to hurt him. After arriving at the address, the police found not only Halil, but also the premises of the apartment adapted for the cultivation of cannabis.
He was taken to court again, but was found not guilty of drug cultivation charges, after declaring that he was being forced by a gang of Albanians to whom he had borrowed about 30,000 pounds some time ago.
He also told the court that the Albanian "chuns" had removed the traceable ring from his foot, then forced him to work in the "grass house".
Halili told the judge that even during the accident, he did not stop because he was in the car with an Albanian gangster, an international drug trafficker, for whom he served as a driver.
He has six previous convictions for 15 offences, including dangerous driving, drink driving, drug driving, driving without a license and driving while licence.