Where do you hide out when you've just smuggled £42million worth of cocaine into Britain from a Colombian drug cartel? For Daniel Livingstone and Mark Moran, the amateurish pair from rural Scotland with no criminal past, it was the warmth of a good old-fashioned British pub that called their names.Having imported more than half a tonne of cocaine onto the East Yorkshire coast, they mustered just half an hour on the road before booking a night at a local inn alongside their Colombian cartel middle man, Didier Tordecilla Reyes.Perhaps the trio would sleep well, believing they had pulled off a high-risk smuggling operation that would have guaranteed them a life-changing payday and satisfied kingpins both in Europe and South America.But their ill-conceived plan would come crashing down when they were intercepted in the pub car park by National Crime Agency officers who discovered 524 kilos of cocaine in the back of a hire van last May.Moran, 22, and Livingstone, 55, were jailed for 15 years and seven years respectively last December. Reyes, meanwhile, was yesterday jailed for 13-and-a-half years for his role in acting as the go between with Colombian drug cartel bosses.How the pair with no previous criminal convictions between them ended up working with a Colombian drug cartel left Judge Mark Bury 'bewildered'.'It's puzzling to try and work out how you became involved,' the judge said about the unassuming pair from the Scottish countryside. Their lawyers suggested it was the 'the lure of easy money' that led them down a 'dark path'. Unfortunately for Livingstone, Moran and Reyes, it turns out smuggling half a tonne of cocaine into Britain isn't that 'easy'.Mark Moran (left) and Daniel Livingstone (right) were part of the £42million smuggling operation Undercover footage shows Moran and Colombian national Didier Tordecilla Reyes unloading the cocaine onto the East Yorkshire coastThe investigation heard how the drugs were of a very high purity of '86-89 per cent' and it was hailed as 'one of the largest seizures' at the time. As one investigator for Britain's FBI put it: 'There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold into communities around the UK.'The Daily Mail can today reveal the undercover footage which helped snare the three men - from the moment they bought their boat to launching it into the water and unloading the cocaine on the beach under the cover of darkness hours later.Footage from April 25 2024 shows Moran buying the rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) at Humber Ribs, in the Hull city centre which the group planned to use for their smuggling mission.A day later, the RHIB is seen attached onto the back of a people carrier, with the group seen filling up Jerry cans for fuel. They then waited until May 3 before launching the inflatable boat from Humber Bridge, Hessell, on the East Yorkshire coast.The group can be seen reversing the RHIB into the water using a trailer. Moran and Reyes then drove it down the Humber estuary and into the North Sea before picking up the consignment.A few hours later, night vision cameras picked them up arriving back on the coast at Easington, where they unloaded the cocaine from the boat into a hire van.Livingstone was waiting for the pair and had been seen shining a torch out to sea and talking on his mobile phone before they approached. They then drove the huge haul from Easington caravan site to a pub in the tiny village of Lelley - around 18 miles away - where they planned to stay overnight, but they were arrested.Didier Tordecilla Reyes (right) was the middle man between the Scots and the Colombian cartel bosses The contents of the van were uncovered when officers found the trio at the hotel The recovered cocaine amounted to a street value of £42million and weighed 524kg Reyes acted as a contact with Colombian drug cartels and flew into the UK to help with the smuggling operation.NCA officers witnessed Moran and Reyes unloading several cocaine holdalls onto the beach and the van leaving the scene.The clothes Reyes had been wearing when he was arrested were so drenched that he had to change into a forensic white suit before being taken away.Lawyers for Moran and Livingstone had sought to downplay their clients' involvement in the operation.Moran's barrister claimed he played a minor role and that the whole operation was 'cartel organised from South America'. Derek Duffy said his client's job was to get the drugs from the boat to the shore.Michael Forest, the lawyer for Livingstone, said his client had been offered £40,000 to drive the van to pick up the drugs.'He was in debt and it offered a way out,' Mr Forest said. 'The lure of easy money led him down this dark path.'Reyes was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years imprisonment at Hull Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine in July last year.Livingstone, of Calton Avenue, Campbeltown, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to seven years and nine months in jail. Meanwhile, Moran of Glenfyne Terrace, Ardrishaig was jailed for 15 years after he was found guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine following a trial. The trio prepared and launched the rigid hulled inflatable boat in Humber Bridge, Hessel A fourth man, from Argyll and Bute, was cleared by the jury.NCA Senior Investigating Officer Alan French said: 'Reyes was an integral part of this smuggling attempt, acting as a go between with drug cartel bosses in Colombia. Without his input, the cocaine would never have got into Moran and Livingstone's hands.'There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold into communities around the UK, but crucial partnership working between the NCA, Humberside Police and Border Force thwarted the plot and left a huge hole in the pockets of the organised crime groups that would have benefitted.'We are determined to do all we can to tackle the threat posed by class A drugs and protect the public from the horrendous impact they have on our society.'