Cocaine smugglers were set for six-figure sums if haul delivered
The other pair would have been handed £150,000 each by an international gang. The haul was the biggest ever seizure before an Irish court. A judge said he “shuddered to think” of the havoc the consignment would have caused if it had reached a planned destination in Britain.
The drugs, en route from Venezuela, were discovered 150 miles (240km) off the west Cork coast. Aboard the yacht were Philip Doo, aged 52, of Brixham, Devon; David Mufford, aged 45, of Torquay, Devon; and Christopher Wiggins, aged 43, of Estepona, Malaga, Spain. All three, linked by extended family connections, were reportedly in poor circumstances, but had been offered six-figure sums each to transport the drugs.
