One of the men who was jailed for 30 years for the €440m cocaine smuggling case was out on parole on a life sentence for murdering an English policeman.

A MESSAGE on a Bebo social networking site to 'Get the right result' could have brought about the collapse of the trial.

THE EARLY morning knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse in West Cork didn’t only herald the arrival of air-sea rescue helicopters. It led to the biggest drugs case in the history of the State.

Jurors who have spent the Summer listening to over 300 witnesses in the €440-million cocaine trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court were sent away to a city hotel for the night and will resume their deliberations tomorrow.

The jury in the eight-week €440m cocaine trial today got its strongest warning yet from the trial judge about avoiding any external influences on them.

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.

THE prosecution in the €440 million west Cork cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect, as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury yesterday.

The prosecution in the €440m cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury today.

The prosecution in the €440m cocaine trial made its closing address to the jury this afternoon and asked if it was possible to believe that the three accused men were simply unlucky.

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.

The man who was rescued from the water where €440m worth of cocaine was also found claimed today the gardaí thought he was guilty just because he was in the water and that in fact he was on a walking holiday in west Cork where he visited the Buddhist centre and the church at Gougane Barra.

One of the men on trial in Cork's €440m cocaine case challenged phone records today and claimed that the prosecution did not even believe that the accused bought or ever used the particular phone.

TWO men on trial over Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs seizure were arrested after a garda found the pair walking among cattle on a west Cork country road, a court heard yesterday.

THE fourth English man charged in connection with the largest cocaine seizure in the history of the State was yesterday sent forward for trial.

THERE was a very strong security presence outside a Co Cork courthouse yesterday as two Englishmen in their 40s appeared on charges relating to the seizure of €107 million worth of cocaine.