Cocaine trial: Wharrie on parole when crime was committed

One of the men who was jailed for 30 years for the €440m cocaine smuggling case was out on parole on a life sentence for murdering an English policeman.

Perry Wharrie (aged 48), of 60, Pryles Lane, Essex, England, and two others were convicted of murder in 1988 and given a life sentence. Released on licence in April 2005 on condition that he not leave the UK, he breached that condition and ended up involved the cocaine-importation crime at Dunlough Bay in July 2007.