Three people have been jailed for a combined 22 years for being involved in an operation to smuggle 255 grams of heroin, with a street value of up to £255,000, into Jersey.

Heroin was brought into the island on three separate occasions between November 2019 and January 2020 by 48-year-old Ana Agathangelou.

She concealed the drugs internally and exchanged them for cash. She was jailed for six years.

45-year-old Jason Bayliss was the driver. He helped to distribute and store the drugs and received a seven-year sentence.

Paul Bisson, who is 42, met Agathangelou to get the drugs. He was in contact with a UK-based organised crime group to get them into Jersey and move them around the island.

He was sentenced to nine years, as he also tried to smuggle £1,000 in cash to England in a package and £19,000 in a suitcase.

The Deputy Bailiff says it gives the court no pleasure to impose these lengthy sentences, but they have a duty to protect the public from these dangerous and damaging drugs.

"Heroin is a drug which blights and destroys lives."

39-year-old Daniel Morgan was also jailed for four and a half years for trying to smuggle the £19,000 in cash to England with Bisson and for various other drugs offences.

Six drug packages going to Morgan's address for personal use were intercepted.