Four men have been jailed over an attempt to smuggle £100m of cocaine on a fishing boat.
More than a ton of the Class A drug was found on board the Lily Lola, off the Cornwall coast in September last year, by a UK Border Force patrol.
Two men from Swansea - Jon Williams, 46, and Patrick Godfrey, 31 - were found guilty at trial in March and were jailed for 26 and 25 years, respectively, at Truro Crown Court on Thursday.
The court heard Williams was the ship's captain and that the boat had been bought for around £140,000 some months previously.
Michael Kelly, 45, from Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no fixed abode, had pleaded guilty before trial and due to their guilty pleas were sentenced to reduced sentences of 21 and 18 years, respectively.
Image: (L-R) Michael Kelly, Patrick Godfrey, Jon Williams, Jake Marchant. Pics: NCAThe seized substances, which had been divided into bales, were tested and found to be high purity cocaine.
A device on board the boat was downloaded and recovered messages showed it had been receiving instructions and co-ordinates from a third party.
A tracker located in the 1,076kg drugs haul was found to be linked to a user in South America.
While three of the defendants made no comment when interviewed by officers, Kelly claimed he was on a fishing trip.
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Speaking after Williams and Godfrey were convicted, National Crime Agency (NCA) branch commander Derek Evans said officers were "working around the clock" to "erode the criminal network benefiting from the destructive drugs trade".
"The NCA and Border Force have prevented a huge haul of cocaine from hitting the streets of the UK and wider Europe, where it would have blighted countless lives and communities," he added.
"We've disrupted a drug supply chain and ensured organised criminals are deprived of the significant profits they would have gained had these drugs made it into the country."
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