Drug barone lotted to export goods hidden inside books

Three members of an organised crime group who hid millions of pounds worth of cocaine inside books destined for Australia were jailed for a total of 12 years. Troy Batchelor, 49, Luke Mills, 46, and James Kulesza, also 46, were part of a massive plot to export more than 12 kilos of cocaine to the southern hemisphere last year. They chose Australia as cocaine fetches up to three times on the street there as it does in the UK. Eastern…