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.

ONE of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the state had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea that morning.

One of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the State had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea on the morning in question.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast has a brother who was with the drug squad of the British Metropolitan Police, it emerged on the fourteenth day of the trial today.