Breaking News: Britain Cocaine Plot Mastermind Found Guilty
Possession Of Cocaine: Breaking News: Britain Cocaine Plot Mastermind Found Guilty
A career criminal who masterminded a plot to smuggle one-and-a-half tonnes of cocaine into the UK has been found guilty and sentenced to 28 years in prison. John Brooks, aged 61, who is originally from Blackpool, but had been living in Marbella, Spain, assembled a crew to import the cocaine, worth an estimated £134m, on board the boat Dances with Waves. In November 2008, the boat was intercepted by authorities 170 miles off the south west coast of Ireland. It had set sail from Trinidad in the Caribbean and stopped off in Venezuelan waters to pick up the cocaine before heading for Liverpool. The drugs seizure was one of the largest in Irish history. Sentencing Brooks, the judge, Recorder Sanghera, said the haul had been a “horrifyingly large amount” of cocaine and that he was convinced the 61 year old had played a “leading role” in this plot, and in “drug trafficking generally”. Brooks, who was arrested in November 2011 while visiting family in Blackpool, was sentenced today at Birmingham Crown Court after being found guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine. Crew members Philip Doo and David Mufford, from Devon, and Christopher Wiggins, who had been living on the Costa del Sol, were arrested at the time of the seizure. They pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply, and were each jailed for ten years in 2009. LÉ Niamh Brooks’ yacht was intercepted by Irish Navy ship LE Niamh in 2008 Matt Horne from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, said: “Brooks was …
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