18 years for ‘Captain Coke’

A drug baron has been jailed for 18 years for trying to smuggle two tonnes of cocaine worth £160m into the UK on a luxury yacht. Andrew Cole, 33, was the link between senior members of an international organised crime group and a UK gang planning to take delivery of the drugs near the English channel. Cole was aboard the £1m yacht, Kahu, when it was stopped 80 miles off the coast of Plymouth on 9 September last year. Border…