Spanish police claim they 'detained yacht with cocaine on board'

Spanish police testified in Cork today that they detained the 'Lucky Day' yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board - four days after €440m worth of cocaine were discovered off the coast of West Cork.

Spanish police testified in Cork today that they detained the 'Lucky Day' yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board - four days after €440m worth of cocaine were discovered off the coast of West Cork.

The jury of nine men and three women were told that there was a ban on publicising the names of two Spanish officers who could only be identified by their officer identification numbers. Judge Seán Ó'Donnabháin told them that the reason for this had nothing to do with the trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court but was to do with Spanish law.

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