Irishman held as 55kg of cocaine thrown from hotel

An alleged Irish drug trafficker has been arrested after two suitcases containing an estimated 55kg of cocaine were thrown from the eighth floor of a Spanish hotel.

According to media reports in Spain, the Irishman had checked into Valencia’s Hotel Tryp Oceanic just a few hours before the incident last Friday.

The local Las Provincias newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying the man took the lift to his room on his own. There, he became paranoid, possibly due to taking drugs, about noises outside his hotel room. It is understood that, in his delirium, he believed there were other dealers coming to take the drugs. As he became more paranoid, he is alleged to have tried to hide packages of cocaine around the room, including in the false ceiling. He also caused damage to the toilet cistern.