Pilot smuggled in cocaine in light aircraft’s red wing weights

  A pilot smuggled cocaine worth £2.5m into the UK from Holland hidden in the red wing weights on a Piper light aircraft, a court heard. Dutchman John Buwalda, 52, was arrested after he delivered the drugs to Polish national Jan Polak, 61, at a Holiday Inn hotel near Rochester Airport in Kent. Buwalda had made the same flight and stayed at the same hotel ‘several times before’ being stopped on 30 June this year, jurors were told. Organised Crime…

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