This is the moment we opened a car boot to find more than £1m of drugs – after the driver led our officers on a 120mph pursuit on the M5 in the West Midlands. The discovery, one of the biggest of its kind in the region in recent times, was made after officers from our Road Crime Team tried to stop the black Peugeot 3008, which was believed to be linked to drugs. They tried to pull the car over, but driver David Sherratt sped off, hitting speeds of up to 120mph on the southbound stretch of the motorway before heading on to the M42 as it was pursued by our officers and the police helicopter. Sherratt’s vehicle was stung, and lost a tyre, before it was boxed in and Sherratt arrested on the M42 near Alvechurch. In the boot of the car were Sports Direct bags, each carrying 18kg of cocaine. The total wholesale value was up to £1.3m.
