Man guilty of role in €440m drugs haul

A man is to be sentenced in London next month for his role in the country’s largest ever drugs haul, when €440m worth of cocaine was recovered from the sea at Dunlough Bay in West Cork.

Stephen Brown, 46, and of no fixed abode, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London yesterday afternoon of conspiring to smuggle the huge consignment of Colombian-origin cocaine into Britain.

Brown had been extradited to Britain from Spain last April to face the charge connected to the massive drugs haul in 2007.