Gangs recruit skilled drone pilots to fly drugs and even ketchup into UK prisons

Police say specialists headhunted for lucrative missions, sometimes delivering several kilograms at a time

Gangs are headhunting highly skilled drone pilots to make Amazon Prime-style deliveries of drugs, weapons and even condiments such as tomato ketchup to prison cell windows.

Police said organised crime groups were recruiting specialist aircraft operators to fly the highly lucrative missions, sometimes transporting several kilograms of contraband at a time.