Bricklayer accused of smuggling £41m worth of cocaine into Britain thought group trip to Colombia was for ‘charity work’

A bricklayer accused of smuggling £41m worth of cocaine into the UK on a luxury private jet said he thought the ‘once in a lifetime’ trip to Colombia was to do charity work. Martin Neil, 48, and four others were found with the drugs after Border Force officials swooped on them at Farnborough Airport, Hants on 29 January this year. The gang, including Martin’s bricklayer brother Stephen Neil, 53, allegedly imported 513 packages of the class A drug packed inside…