A former Detective Sergeant in the London Metropolitan drug squad is currently in custody in England on charges of trafficking 200 kilos of drugs six weeks ago – and this man is a brother of one of the men on trial in the €440m cocaine case in Cork, it emerged today.

THE jury at the €440 million cocaine trial in Cork has been sent away for legal argument in their absence.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast had to make an emergency visit to a dentist in Cork two weeks before the drugs seizure and today the jury heard evidence from the dentist.

The jury in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs trial were sent home until Monday and warned by the trial judge today to avoid reading media reports like the plague.