British police seize motor boat ‘linked to cocaine haul’

British police have seized a motor boat which they believe was to transfer 1,100kg of cocaine from the yacht Makayabella on its final leg into Britain.

National Crime Agency (NCA) officers seized the 25ft motor boat, Sea Breeze, at a marina in Pwllheli, North Wales, and are forensically examining it.

The officers believe the boat was to rendezvous with the Makayabella somewhere in the Atlantic — a similarity with the interception off the Irish coast in 2008 of the yacht Dances With Waves, which had €600m worth of cocaine onboard.