Robert Daniel Flook: the total estimated street value of the drugs concerned with Flook's operation to £350 million.

Robert Daniel Flook, 46, police believe imported drugs with a street value of more than £350 million has been jailed for 26 years.was sentenced at London's Blackfriars Crown Court for conspiracy to supply 330lb (150kg) of Class A drugs (cocaine) and conspiracy to supply eight tonnes of Class C drugs (cannabis).
The Metropolitan Police said the cannabis seizure is the largest the force has ever made and the cocaine haul is the second largest ever made in South Africa.
Flook used "front companies" to transport drugs hidden in garden furniture and mirrors, police said. He was arrested following a joint investigation between the Met's Special Projects team and South African Organised Crime law enforcement agencies.
The operation focused on the importation of cocaine and cannabis by British nationals into the UK from South Africa. It culminated in the seizure of eight tonnes of cannabis in September 2006, with a street value of £28 million. The consignment was seized at Felixstowe port and concealed in a shipment of South African garden furniture.
The second seizure was made in South Africa the following month and consisted of 330lb (150kg) of cocaine with a street value of £10.5 million. That consignment had been hidden in mirrors destined for the UK.
Flook, of Eltham Park Gardens, Eltham, south east London, was found guilty of the charges in August.
Police believe that the network started importing drugs in 2001, with similarly sized consignments to those seized in September/October 2006 being imported undetected until the seizures. Officers described Flook as one of the key organisers.
During Flook's trial it was said the network imported some 11 containers which held cannabis between 2001 and 2006, which based on the quantity seized in September 2006 was valued at £308 million street value. In addition evidence showed the network imported four containers of cocaine with an estimated value of £42 million street value between 2004 and 2006, police said.Robert Flook, who had a business based in Belvedere, was sentenced to 26 years for conspiracy to supply 150 kilos of class A drugs and 13 years for conspiracy to supply eight tonnes of class C drugs, to be served concurrently, at Blackfriars Crown Court on Friday.
The 46-year-old was one of the key organisers of a network that imported the drugs from South Africa.
He was arrested with another man after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Special Projects team and South African Organised Crime law enforcement agencies.
Eight tonnes of cannabis, with a street value of £28 million was seized at Felixstowe port in September 2006, and 150 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of £10.5million, was seized in South Africa the following October.
He used his business, Playaway Events Ltd, based at various addresses in south London and Belvedere, to import cannabis hidden in garden furniture.
His other business, P&G Mirrors UK, based in Brixham and Newton Abbott, served as the front to import the cocaine.
It is believed the network started importing drugs in 2001 and in that time imported 11 containers of cannabis and four containers of cocaine with an estimated combined street value of about £350million.
Three British men were arrested in South Africa at the same time as Flooks.
Two were found guilty of two counts of dealing narcotic substances and received 20 years for the cocaine and 20 years for the cannabis. The other man was acquitted.
Det Insp Craig Turner said: "These convictions are the result of months of work between law enforcement agencies in the UK and South Africa, and the sentence represents the substantial damage these drugs would have caused."