The final member of a drugs smuggling gang who attempted to import cocaine with a street value of £42 million into the UK on a small boat has been jailed.

National Crime Agency officers arrested 40-year-old Didier Tordecilla Reyes at a hotel in Lelley, East Yorkshire, in May last year.

Colombian national Reyes, of no fixed UK abode, had stayed overnight in the hotel with two other men who conspired with him to smuggle the class A drug: 24-year-old Mark Moran and 25-year-old Daniel Livingstone, both from Argyll and Bute.

NCA investigators found the drugs, which weighed 524 kilos, stashed inside a hire van parked outside.

Reyes acted as a contact with Colombian drug cartels and flew in to the UK especially to participate in the smuggling attempt.

He and Moran had sailed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) from the Hessle slipway before returning hours later with the drugs haul and unloading it at a beach near Easington caravan park.

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