THE judge in the eight-week €440 million cocaine trial stood in front of the jury with a length of rope in his hands to explain the circumstantial evidence on which the prosecution is based.

The judge in the eight-week €440m cocaine trial stood in front of the jury today with a length of rope in his hands to explain the circumstantial evidence on which the prosecution is based.

One of the men accused of having €440m worth of cocaine in Dunlough Bay in West Cork last year claimed today that he had nothing to do with the crime and was pushed on to the boat carrying all the drugs.