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Cocaine smuggling men start lengthy jail sentencesBy a County Press reporter - Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Cocaine smuggling men start lengthy jail sentences
Five guilty of cocaine smuggling
First folk fair a sell-out successHotel fire extinguishedMajor tailbacks in townPatient airlifted to hospitalFoodbank initiative seeks volunteersReaders' gallery picturesScooter rally 'one of the best yet'Yacht stranded for eight hours on sandbankSeaweed will not make fuelScarecrows take over villageMore News: 1 - 2 - 3 THE men at the centre of one of the biggest drug-smuggling plots in Isle of Wight history have been convicted at Kingston Crown Court and are now beginning sentences totalling 104 years.
Yarmouth fisherman Jamie Green, crew members Scott Birtwistle, Daniel Payne and Zoran Dresic, and scaffolder Jonathan Beere were found guilty after a four-week trial which concluded today (Thursday).
All had denied knowing anything about £54 million worth of cocaine found at Freshwater Bay, in waterproof holdalls, seized in a massive operation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and HM Customs, last May.
Green, Beere and Dresic were all jailed for 24 years, Payne was jailed for 18 years and Birtwistle was sentenced to 14 years at a young offenders’ institution.
Tanya Wools, prosecuting, had told the court Green, 43, whose family owns Salty’s Restaurant in Yarmouth, was captain of lobster fishing boat Galwad-Y-Mor, which is based in the town harbour.
She said he and three others collected the stash out at sea after it was thrown overboard by the cargo vessel Oriane, which had come from Brazil. They brought the haul back to The Solent and dumped it in the water in watertight rucksacks attached to a buoy.
Green, of Newport Road, Yarmouth, Dresic, 35, of no fixed address, Payne, 36, of Albert Road, East Cowes, Birtwistle, 20, of Chichester, and Beere, 42, of Mayfield Road, Ryde, had all denied conspiring with Edward Austin, Daniel Digic and others unknown to smuggle cocaine.
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Cocaine smuggling men start lengthy jail sentences
Five guilty of cocaine smuggling
First folk fair a sell-out successHotel fire extinguishedMajor tailbacks in townPatient airlifted to hospitalFoodbank initiative seeks volunteersReaders' gallery picturesScooter rally 'one of the best yet'Yacht stranded for eight hours on sandbankSeaweed will not make fuelScarecrows take over villageMore News: 1 - 2 - 3 THE men at the centre of one of the biggest drug-smuggling plots in Isle of Wight history have been convicted at Kingston Crown Court and are now beginning sentences totalling 104 years.
Yarmouth fisherman Jamie Green, crew members Scott Birtwistle, Daniel Payne and Zoran Dresic, and scaffolder Jonathan Beere were found guilty after a four-week trial which concluded today (Thursday).
All had denied knowing anything about £54 million worth of cocaine found at Freshwater Bay, in waterproof holdalls, seized in a massive operation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and HM Customs, last May.
Green, Beere and Dresic were all jailed for 24 years, Payne was jailed for 18 years and Birtwistle was sentenced to 14 years at a young offenders’ institution.
Tanya Wools, prosecuting, had told the court Green, 43, whose family owns Salty’s Restaurant in Yarmouth, was captain of lobster fishing boat Galwad-Y-Mor, which is based in the town harbour.
She said he and three others collected the stash out at sea after it was thrown overboard by the cargo vessel Oriane, which had come from Brazil. They brought the haul back to The Solent and dumped it in the water in watertight rucksacks attached to a buoy.
Green, of Newport Road, Yarmouth, Dresic, 35, of no fixed address, Payne, 36, of Albert Road, East Cowes, Birtwistle, 20, of Chichester, and Beere, 42, of Mayfield Road, Ryde, had all denied conspiring with Edward Austin, Daniel Digic and others unknown to smuggle cocaine.
