A Brit has been fined £60million and jailed for five years after 1.5 tonnes of cocaine were found on his yacht. Spanish customs caught James McNaught, 43, with 61 bales of coke 200 miles off the Canary Islands.
He was sentenced in Madrid ahead of his trial following a confession and plea bargain. The Spanish air force helped find McNaught’s 40ft yacht Pepper Sauce as it sailed to the Spanish mainland in June 2018.
Police, who had tracked McNaught for three years, said drugs were transferred between boats at sea. Father-of-one McNaught moved to Spain as a teenager after growing up in Newquay, Cornwall.
His sister Linda Johnson said when he was arrested: “I have no sympathy for people that want something for nothing.” A Spanish police
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