Man found in ocean next to infamous €440m Dunlough Bay cocaine haul has sentence reduced

A man found floating in the ocean next to 65 bales of cocaine has had his 30-year prison sentence for one of the State’s largest ever drugs haul cut to 23 years by the Court of Appeal.

Englishman Martin Wanden, 58, with a last address in South Africa, had pleaded not guilty to his role in the €440m drugs haul which went awry at Dunlough Bay on the Mizen Peninsula, West Cork on July 2 2007.