Almost 400kg of heroin has been found hidden under towels and bathrobes in a shipping container in Felixstowe.

Worth almost £40m on the streets, the 63-stone haul is one of the largest ever seizures in the UK.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) had been tracking a ship heading to Antwerp in Belgium and suspected it was carrying a large shipment of drugs.

On Friday, the day after it docked at the Suffolk port, Border Force and NCA officers removed the container.

After the drugs had been taken out, the container was put back on the ship, which travelled on to Antwerp.

Officers watched as a lorry collected the container from Belgium and took it to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

On Monday, as suspects began to unload the contents, Dutch police moved in and made two arrests.

A man from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was arrested simultaneously and is being questioned.

The NCA said the drugs were worth about £9m wholesale and at least £40m on the streets.

The drugs would have fuelled “violence and exploitation including what we see in county lines offending nationwide”, the NCA said.

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