Sentencing delay for cocaine in bananas gang

Five Albanian drug smugglers who posed as wholesale grocers to import one of Britain’s biggest ever seizures of cocaine inside a consignment of bananas will be sentenced next month. Just over 2.3 tonnes was secreted in a cargo of 41 pallets of fruit in Colombia, which was intercepted when it arrived at Portsmouth harbour in February 2021. Officers replaced the cocaine with more fruit and pretended to be lorry drivers to deliver the drugs to a bogus grocery warehouse the…