MP David Lidington has returned from a fact-finding trip to Pakistan where he met drug enforcement leaders and discussed the problem of drug trafficking into Britain.

MP David Lidington has returned from a fact-finding trip to Pakistan where he met drug enforcement leaders and discussed the problem of drug trafficking into Britain.

The Aylesbury MP, whose constituents include Princes Risborough residents, has called for tougher sentences for drug dealers and improved rehabilitation for drug-addicted criminals after the five day trip by a Conservative Party delegation.

He said: 'What happens in Pakistan is relevant to people in the Aylesbury area and not just to the British Pakistani community. We met the general in charge of drug enforcement in the Punjab. Heroin from Afghanistan is smuggled through Pakistan and can end up on the streets of Britain.'

Only last month 19-year-old heroin addict Barry McCullagh, of Brook Road, Princes Risborough, was given two years youth detention after admitting robbing a schoolgirl with a cigarette lighter shaped like a gun because he was addicted to heroin and was in considerable debt.

And before that, former heroin user Elaine Millet, of Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, narrowly escaped jail after she acted as a getaway driver in a burglary for her heroin addict boyfriend Stuart Plant, of Woodfield Road, Princes Risborough who was jailed for four years in July for committing more than 60 burglaries in two months.

Mr Lidington added: 'There is a lot of crime in this country as a result of drug abuse. It's people stealing in order to pay for their next fix. We need very tough sentences for people involved in drug trafficking and then we need to have a system of rehabilitation for people who are addicted.'

Mr Lidington also met with representatives of the main political parties in Pakistan, including the former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan who is now campaigning against political corruption in the country.