Two deny light aircraft drug smuggling plot

Two suspected drug smugglers today (Mon) denied a plot to bring in £4 million worth of cocaine into the UK on a light aircraft. Dutchman John Buwalda, 52, and Polish national Jan Polak, 61, were arrested after a plane landed in a field next to a Holiday Inn hotel, in Chatham, Kent. Officers found 22kg of cocaine in bags with a street value of around £4 million when the aircraft was searched on 30 June this year. The pair appeared…