Spanish police testify in cocaine trial

SPANISH police testified in Cork that they detained the Lucky Day yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board four days after €440 million worth of cocaine was discovered off the coast of west Cork.

The jury was told that there was a ban on publicising the names of the two Spanish officers who could only be identified by their officer identification numbers.

Judge Sean O’Donnabhain told them that the reason for this had nothing to do with the trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court but was to do with Spanish law.