The final member of a drugs smuggling gang who attempted to flood the UK with £46m worth of cocaine on a small boat with two Scots has been jailed. ‌

Didier Tordecilla Reyes , 40, has been caged for 13-and-a-half years after he was arrested by police officers at a hotel in Lelley, East Yorkshire, in May last year. ‌

The Colombian national had stayed overnight in the hotel with Daniel Livingstone , from Campbeltown, and Mark Moran, from Ardrishaig, who conspired with him to smuggle the class A drug. ‌

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Investigators found the drugs stashed inside a hire van parked outside. Reyes acted as a contact with Colombian drug cartels and flew into the UK especially to participate in the smuggling attempt.

He and Moran had sailed a rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) fro

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