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21/05/2008
Trial Over Biggest Drugs Haul In Irish History Begins
The trial of four men charged following the biggest drugs seizure in Irish History is due to start on Wednesday.
Over 1.5 tonnes on cocaine, worth over €100 million was recovered off the west coast of Cork last July.
The State has put more than 400 witnesses on stand-by for the trial, which is expected to last several weeks, while garda and the prosecution service have been collating evidence since last July when the men were arrested.
Gerard Hagan, Martin Wanden, Perrie Wharrie and Joe Daly, will go on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork charged in connection with the haul.
On 2 July last year, a stranger ran into a farmhouse near Mizen Head in west Cork looking for help for a companion - with whom he claimed to have been fishing - reporting that their boat had overturned in rough seas.
The farmer called the emergency services who saved the man's life but they also recovered 61 suspicious packages floating in the water around the up-turned rigid inflatable boat.
The rescuers took a man from the water suffering from severe hypothermia, after the 'fishing accident'
The rescuers also recovered the packages floating in the water, which later were revealed to contain cocaine by gardaí.
The trial of the four men, who are all English, began on Wednesday and is expected to last several weeks.
(DW)(BMcC)
Over 1.5 tonnes on cocaine, worth over €100 million was recovered off the west coast of Cork last July.
The State has put more than 400 witnesses on stand-by for the trial, which is expected to last several weeks, while garda and the prosecution service have been collating evidence since last July when the men were arrested.
Gerard Hagan, Martin Wanden, Perrie Wharrie and Joe Daly, will go on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork charged in connection with the haul.
On 2 July last year, a stranger ran into a farmhouse near Mizen Head in west Cork looking for help for a companion - with whom he claimed to have been fishing - reporting that their boat had overturned in rough seas.
The farmer called the emergency services who saved the man's life but they also recovered 61 suspicious packages floating in the water around the up-turned rigid inflatable boat.
The rescuers took a man from the water suffering from severe hypothermia, after the 'fishing accident'
The rescuers also recovered the packages floating in the water, which later were revealed to contain cocaine by gardaí.
The trial of the four men, who are all English, began on Wednesday and is expected to last several weeks.
(DW)(BMcC)
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