Four drug smugglers have been convicted of trying to smuggle £100m of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall, after a National Crime Agency investigation.

The crime group members were found with more than a ton of the Class A drug on board their boat, the Lily Lola, in September last year.

Two of the offenders Michael Kelly, 45, and Jake Marchant, 27, pleaded guilty before trial.

But today two other men, Jon Williams, 46, of Windmill Terrace, St Thomas, Swansea, and Patrick Godfrey, 31, of Danygraig Road, Port Tennant, Swansea, were also convicted after a trial of smuggling the 1,076kg haul.

Shortly after 2pm on 13 September, the Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was onpatrol off the north coast of Cornwall and deployed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) to intercept the Lily Lola.

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