Cocaine accused challenges phone records

One of the men on trial in Cork's €440m cocaine case challenged phone records today and claimed that the prosecution did not even believe that the accused bought or ever used the particular phone.

A prosecution witness rejected that suggestion made by senior counsel Padraig Dwyer on behalf of Martin Wanden (aged 45), of no fixed abode, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Detailed evidence of texts from ‘Big Al’ and ‘Slim’ received by the phone in question was outlined on Tuesday.