‘Coke air’ smugglers face jail

Three drug smugglers recruited a Belgian pilot to drop reinforced containers packed with cocaine worth £2.6m into a field, a court heard. Andrew Barrett, Michael Mealing, both 41, and 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 the surrounding countryside. The following day, 23 June 2016, officers watched as a light aircraft…