‘Coke-Air’ smugglers get nearly 40 years

Three drug smugglers, including a former stockbroker, who recruited a Belgian pilot to drop reinforced containers packed with cocaine worth £2.6m into a field were jailed for a total of almost 40 years today. Andrew Barrett, Michael Mealing, both 41, and former city boy Jonathan Hart, 50, were tailed by undercover detectives as they met up with the airman in a pub in Rochester, Kent. They were seen studying ordinance survey maps as they discussed prospective drop off sites in…