SOME "idiot" put diesel instead of petrol into the powerful engines on the rib boat found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, a jury was told.

Diesel instead of petrol was put into the powerful engines on the RIB boat that was found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, the expert who examined the wreckage said today.

An abandoned RIB-type boat was found at a pier in West Cork the day after the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state in another bay in the area, one of the central investigating officers testified today on the seventh day of the trial.

The €440m cocaine trial in Cork heard today that the first coastguard officer at the scene suspected it was a drugs drop gone wrong.

THE soaking-wet man who knocked on the door of a farmhouse in west Cork looking for help on the morning that €440 million worth of cocaine was found floating in choppy waters told the farmer who helped him not to alert the rescue services.

The man who emerged from the sea in West Cork on the morning that €440m worth of cocaine was found floating in choppy waters was given assistance at a local farmhouse and told the farmer there was no need to alert the rescue services - a judge and jury was told today.