One of €440m accused 'has brother in UK drug squad'

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast has a brother who was with the drug squad of the British Metropolitan Police, it emerged on the fourteenth day of the trial today.

Margaret Kearney, a sister of defendant, Joseph Daly (aged 41) from Carrisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, was called to give evidence in the trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.