Five years jail for cocaine trafficker

A German who believed it was easier to get cocaine into London by coming through Cork was sentenced to five years with the last three years suspended today.

Mike Hoffman (aged 30), of Bissenberger, Strabe 40, Biskirchen, Stadt Leun, Germany, was caught with €140,000 worth of cocaine hidden in his luggage at Cork Airport. He had flown from Nairobi via Amsterdam to Cork and the ultimate destination for the drugs was to have been the UK.