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| Men guilty after 750kg of cocaine seized from boat in Fishguard | Men guilty after 750kg of cocaine seized from boat in Fishguard |
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| Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine after one of the largest hauls of the drug in UK history was found on board a boat. | Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine after one of the largest hauls of the drug in UK history was found on board a boat. |
| About 750kg of cocaine was recovered from the boat in Pembrokeshire in August. | About 750kg of cocaine was recovered from the boat in Pembrokeshire in August. |
| Gary Swift, 53, and Scott Kilgour, 41, from Liverpool, were arrested on board the yacht about a mile off the Fishguard coast. | Gary Swift, 53, and Scott Kilgour, 41, from Liverpool, were arrested on board the yacht about a mile off the Fishguard coast. |
| The pleas were made at Swansea Crown Court. They next appear in December. | |
| The National Crime Agency, working closely with the Spanish National Police, identified the SY Atrevido boat as carrying the large cocaine shipment. | |
| Swift and Kilgour were stopped on 27 August, after Border Force cutter HMC Protector was dispatched and intercepted the yacht. | |
| The vessel was searched, with 751kg cocaine found with a purity of up to 83%, the NCA said. | |
| It added that the quantity found would have a wholesale value of about £24m and a potential street value of £60m. | |
| Craig Naylor, NCA deputy director of investigations, said: "Drugs fuel violence and exploitation, damaging communities and leaving destruction in their wake. | |
| "Seizing this large quantity of cocaine will have had a huge impact on the organised crime group - damaging their reputation amongst other criminals, and ultimately stripping them of their assets." | |
| Four others - three men aged 23, 31, 47, and a woman aged 30 - were arrested in Liverpool and Loughborough in connection with the seizure, and remain on bail until November. |