Smugglers convicted of ‘Coke-Air’ plot

Two drug dealers are facing more than a decade behind bars after they were convicted of smuggling £2.5m worth of cocaine hidden in the wing weights of a light aircraft. Pilot John Buwalda, 52, delivered the drugs to Polish national Jan Polak, 61, at a Holiday Inn hotel near Rochester Airport in Kent. The Dutchman had made the same flight and stayed at the same hotel ‘several times before’ being stopped on 30 June this year, the Old Bailey heard….