Four men who threw cocaine worth more than £18 million into the sea were jailed yesterday for a total of more than 80 years.
Three of the seven gang members had tried to outrun Border Force officers for around 28 miles at sea after their drug laden inflatable boat was spotted.
The trio were seen throwing off the bales of cocaine into the sea before they stopped at Gwynver beach near Sennen, Cornwall, last September.
Scott Johnston, 39, Peter Williams, 43, and Spanish speaking Edwin Tabora Baca, 33, had been spotted off the coast by a Border Force vessel and were arrested on the beach after the high speed chase around the coast of Cornwall as they tried to run from the scene.
Truro Crown Court heard that the conspirators had been due to collect 20 bales of cocaine from the sea after they had been dropped there by a cargo ship.
