Cocaine trial men hid for two nights in shed without food

TWO of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the state walked for hours across country and hid for two nights in a shed after seeing dozens of packages of drugs floating in the sea off the coast of west Cork last July.

One of the accused, Joseph Daly, aged 41, from 9 Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, described how he and a co-accused, Perry Wharrie, aged 48, of 60 Pryles Lane, Essex, walked away from Dunlough Bay at about 8am on July 2, 2007, and hid for two nights in a shed with nothing to eat.

Prosecution senior counsel Tom Creed put it to Daly during lengthy cross-examination at Cork Circuit Criminal Court: “You made no effort to reveal yourself and declare yourself innocent of this situation. And likewise Mr Wharrie.”