A RENFREW drug dealer who was prevented by elite border cops from smuggling £2 million of cocaine into Britain is facing a lengthy jail sentence..

Pradeep Bhowmick, 31, and his accomplice James Quinn, 32, were arrested after UK Border Agency Officials found the drugs in a lorry at Hull Docks in September, 2013.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard how the narcotics were hidden in computers which were bound for a company in Clydebank.

Officers launched an investigation after the find and Bhowmick and Quinn were arrested on suspicion of masterminding the operation.

On Wednesday, jurors took a day of deliberation to return guilty verdicts against the pair for being involved in the supply of illegal substances.

Judge Lady Carmichael deferred sentence on the pair for the court to obtain reports.

But she warned the duo to expect prison sentences and remanded them in custody.

She added: “Each of your counsel has made a motion that bail be continued.

"In my view, however, a custodial sentence is inevitable in light of the verdict.”

Quinn and Bhowmick protested their innocence throughout the two week trial.

Their lawyers had claimed that police had arrested the wrong men.

The court heard how customs officers based at King George Dock in Hull stopped a lorry which had travelled from Amsterdam in the Netherlands on September 12, 2013.

Upon searching the computers contained within the lorry, officers found eight kilos of high purity cocaine.

Detectives who then analysed the find concluded that the drugs seized would have been worth at least £2 million to the dealers who would have sold them.

Officers seized Bhowmick’s mobile phone when they arrested him. Upon examining the phone, analysts found text messages which linked him to drug dealing.

After the verdicts, it emerged that Quinn has a previous conviction for assault and robbery. He was jailed for 18 months for the crime.

Bhowmick, a first offender, was employed as a freight shipping clerk in Paisley.

Lady Carmichael deferred sentence to November 3, at the High Court in Glasgow.