A WALLYFORD drug dealer found guilty of attempting to smuggle £2million of cocaine into Britain, hidden inside computers, is facing a lengthy jail sentence.

Pradeep Bhowmick, 31, was living in the East Lothian village when elite border cops discovered the Class A drugs in a lorry at Hull Docks in September 2013.

The computers containing the cocaine were destined to be delivered to a company in Clydebank.

UK Border Agency officials arrested Bhowmick and fellow accused James Quinn, 32, following an investigation.

The High Court in Edinburgh was told a mobile phone belonging to Bhowmick contained text messages linking him to drug dealing.

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

His QC Keith Stewart told the High Court that at the time of the offence his client was living in Wallyford and was travelling regularly to the West of Scotland.

Both Bhowmick and Quinn had insisted they were innocent of any involvement in the supply of drugs.

However a jury at the High Court returned guilty verdicts against the pair after a two-week long trial. Judge Lady Carmichael deferred sentence on the pair for the court to obtain reports.

But she warned the pair 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.”

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.

Police officers then launched an investigation and found that the men who masterminded the scam were Bhowmick, who now resides in Renfrew, and Quinn, of Parkhouse, Glasgow.

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

Jurors spent a day deliberating their verdict.

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