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| In a previous life, the Lily Lola was an angling boat |
A significant amount of cocaine was intercepted off the coast of Cornwall on Friday. Four men have been charged in connection with the seizure, which is believed to have been a major blow to an organised crime group. The drugs were found aboard the ex-angling boat, Lily Lola which was stopped off Newquay by NCA officers.
Later that day, three men were arrested after they ran their rib ashore on Gwynver beach near Lands End...
in an attempt to smuggle at least 240kg of cocaine ashore...
the rib was filmed in the act being pursued at speed by the NCA and then abandoned as the smugglers jumped from the rib and began running across the beach to escape - anyone who knows the beach in question would know that running up that hill at Gwynver to escape just isn't going to happen!..
on Saturday, the resident Newlyn harbour work boat, Danmark was tasked with retrieving the smuggler's rib...
which had been left stranded on the sandy beach...
the rib was successfully towed back round Lands End to Newlyn...
with a ton or more of sand on board...
the 6.7m Brig rib is powered by a 200hp Suzuki outboard - not quite enough hp it seems to outrun those guys at the NCA! One of these new would set you back over £70,000.