A drugs smuggler has been caged for 18 years after a massive haul of cocaine was discovered by authorities during a national crime operation.
Andrew Cole was sentenced at court on Thursday after he confessed to trying to smuggle two tonnes of class A drugs with a street value worth up to £160million into the UK.
Cole was travelling on a luxury yacht, Kahu, when it was stopped about 80 miles off the coast of Plymouth on September 9 2021.
In an operation led by the National Crime Agency and supported by Border Force and the Australian Federal Police, 33-year-old Cole was found to be the link between senior members of an international organised crime group and a UK group who were planning for the arrival of the drugs near the English Channel.
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