Pilot who bombed Faversham with cocaine gets 14 years

A Belgian pilot who flew secret missions with the SAS during the Cold War was jailed for 14 years for dropping cocaine worth more than £2.5m into the Kent countryside. Former soldier Rudi Sels, 65, was recruited by a gang of smugglers to dump 31kg of the drug from his light aircraft into a field near Faversham on 23 June last year. The plot to exploit lax border controls was foiled thanks to an undercover operation by the National Crime…