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2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Drug-smuggling fisherman who met King Charles is jailed for captaining boat that picked up £18million of cocaine off Cornish coast
A seasoned fisherman who met King Charles multiple times has been jailed for his role in a cocaine-smuggling plot. Peter Williams was the captain of an inflatable which picked up drugs packages off the Cornish coast as part of a lucrative international operation. But Border Force teams began to get suspicious and gave chase as Williams and co-conspirators Scott Johnston, 39, and Edwin Tabora Baca, 33, tried to shake them off in their rigid inflatable boat (RIB). The trio even tried dumping their illegal cargo - worth £18 million - overboard as they sought to outpace Border Force. They were eventually chased onto a beach near Land's End where they were arrested. Williams, of Havant in Hampshire, was handed a jail term of 16 years and nine months at Truro Crown Court on Thursday. Co-conspirator Bobbie Pearce, 29, of Brentwood in Essex, was sentenced to 15 years and four months in prison. Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import Class A drugs. Four other men had already been jailed over the smuggling. The court heard Williams was a respected voice in the fishing industry and had met with Government officials as well as the King. But he had fallen on hard times, and resorted to drugs after seeing his father die at sea. Defending Williams, lawyer Harry Laidlaw told the court: 'He knew full well what he was getting himself into. 'He just captained the boat. He was a foot soldier acting under instruction. 'He did not have an operational or management role in the chain. 'His role was simple albeit skilled.' Mr Laidlaw told the judge that Williams was involved in a charity called Fishing Into The Future. He said King Charles was previously a charity trustee and that they met several times as they promoted sustainable fishing and encouraging young people into the industry. 'It has been a massive fall from grace,' Mr Laidlaw said. 'He has not made his money from crime. 'He was an upstanfing member of the local coastal community. 'He has made a terrible series of decisions.' The prosecution said the drugs were brought from South America on a cargo vessel across the Atlantic and were dumped in water tight bales into the sea in the English Channel. The bales were fitted with GPS tracking devices attached to Apple air tags so that they could be recovered from the sea by the smaller vessel and transported to mainland Cornwall to be off loaded and transported elsewhere in the country. But despite the technology, the three men on the boat only managed to find 11 of the 20 bales - and dumped them during the chase. Six large containers containing around 230kg of 'high-purity cocaine' were later recovered from the ocean by Border Force officers and the men were arrested. The other conspirators were arrested at later times after National Crime Agency investigators trawled through CCTV footage, phone call data and phone messages. Pearce and three other men - Alex Fowlie, 35, of Chichester; Michael May, 47, of Kelveden Hatch, Essex; and Terry Willis, 44, of Chelmsford, Essex - helped plan and organise the cocaine smuggling operation and pick up. Willis also admitted money laundering and possessing a revolver and live ammo which were found in a rucksack in his bedroom cupboard. Tabora Baca - who claimed to be a tourist who had accepted a boat invitation from two strangers to go fishing - was the Spanish speaking link between the higher figures in the operation and had flown into the country on several occasions. But messages on his phone discussed the group's plans and shared a photo of the cocaine on the vessel. Johnston played a significant role as he piloted the RHIB and helped dump the cocaine during the pursuit. The judge said two organised crime groups were involved - one in the South West involving the boat and retrieval of the drugs from the sea - and the other in Essex where the cocaine would have been taken to be cut, divided and sold on to street dealers. Tabora Baca was jailed for 17 years and seven months and will be deported, Johnston was jailed for 24 years, Willis for 21 years and 8 months which included five years for the firearm offence, and May was jailed for 19 years. Fowlie, 35, of Chichester will be sentenced on 5 September.
BBC News
4 hours ago
- BBC News
Pair jailed for part in £18.4m cocaine smuggling operation
Two men who were part of an £18.4m cocaine smuggling operation which saw Border Force officers pursue a drug-laden boat off the coast of Cornwall for an hour have been Williams, 44, of Havant, Hampshire, and 29-year-old Bobbie Pearce, of Brentwood, Essex, both admitted their part in a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the UK when they appeared for sentencing at Truro Crown Williams, who had been skipper of the boat that was used to carry the drugs, was jailed for 16 years and nine trader Pearce, who was in a car which he drove from Essex to firstly Plymouth and then Cornwall as part of the smuggling plot, was given 15 years and four months. Six men have been jailed in total for their parts in trying to bring the class A drugs into the UK. 'Acting under instruction' The court heard Williams was arrested when the rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) he was skippering ran aground on Gwynver Beach, near Sennen, following the chase at sea on 13 September was caught on the beach as he tried to run phone showed he was in the Land's End area when the RHIB beached and he quickly departed the area and drove back to Essex. Williams' lawyer Harry Laidlaw told the court: "He knew full well what he was getting himself into. "He just captained the boat. He was a foot soldier acting under instruction. "He did not have an operational or management role in the chain. His role was simple, albeit skilled."Pearce's lawyer Ishan Dave said his client had no previous convictions and had never been involved in the drugs world James Adkin said this was an international conspiracy to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into the added that the conspiracy involved two organised crime groups in the South West and South East - their aim being "to flood the streets of Essex and London with cocaine with grave societal harm".
BBC News
4 hours ago
- BBC News
Devon dad-of-three passes GCSEs alongside teenage sister
A 31-year-old father-of-three has said he was "made up" after he passed his first GCSEs - after he sat them alongside his 16-year-old Ali, from Torquay, in Devon, said he was a "bright" teenager but did not take his exams at school because his laptop and coursework were by his partner Cherai, he enrolled at South Devon College and now has a 6 at English and a 3 at Ali said a "strong six" in English was "the highlight of the day". Mr Ali has been accepted on to an electrical insulation level 2 course, and plans to study psychology at university, so he can pursue his dream career as a life said his learning experience had been "fantastic" and added: "I wish I had gone back sooner."Mr Ali said he only realised his little sister would be in the same exam hall when he saw her smiling nervously at gave her a "reassuring nod", which she later told their mother had given her a "little inspirational kick". 'Don't hold back' Mr Ali said he moved schools a lot as a child which affected his mental health, so when his coursework was stolen he "threw in the towel".He moved to Spain for six months, before he returned to the UK where he took on a series of jobs which included running his own now works full-time converting camper said he was homeless at one point, but said he always had "unfinished business".His advice to any adults thinking of returning to education was "don't hold back" and to chase their dreams."You can either live your life with all those questions... or give those questions in your head some answers and go and do it."
