Cocaine accused 'hid in shed while drug packages floated off Mizen Head'

Two of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the State walked for hours across country and hid for two nights in a shed after seeing dozens of packages of drugs floating in the sea off the coast of West Cork last July.

One of the accused, Joseph Daly (aged 41), from 9 Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, described today how he and a co-accused, Perry Wharrie (aged 48), of 60 Pryles Lane, Essex, walked away from Dunlough Bay at around 8am on July 2 2007 and hid for two nights in a shed with nothing to eat.