Three plead not guilty in biggest-ever drugs trial

The biggest drugs trial in the history of the State relating to the seizure of over €100m worth of cocaine off the coast of West Cork last Summer commenced in Cork city today.

Three Englishmen, Perry Wharrie (aged 48), of 60 Pryles Lane, Essex, England, Joseph Daly (aged 41), from 9 Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, and Martin Wanden (aged 45), who is also English but has no fixed abode, all pleaded not guilty yesterday to the charges against them at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.