Cocaine trial prosecution ‘speculative’

THE prosecution in the €440 million west Cork cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect, as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury yesterday.

Joseph Daly of 9 Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent; Perry Wharrie, 48, of 60 Pryles Lane, Essex, England, and Martin Wanden, 45, who is also English and of no fixed abode, all deny charges including possession of cocaine for sale or supply when its street value exceeded €13,000 on July 2, at Dunlough Bay, Mizen, Goleen, Co Cork.

Closing submissions on behalf of Wanden and Wharrie were made yesterday.