Jury retires to consider verdict in Makayabella cocaine seizure case

A UK jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of two people charged in connection with an international plot to smuggle £164m of cocaine.

Jury retires to consider verdict in Makayabella cocaine seizure case

A UK jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of two people charged in connection with an international plot to smuggle £164m of cocaine.

Dawne Powell (aged 56, and James Hill (aged 30) are accused of taking part in the scheme which saw one tonne of the class A drug seized from a yacht off the Irish coast in September last year.

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