TWO members of the ‘Freshwater Five’ all of whom maintain their innocence of a £53m cocaine smuggling plot will have their convictions considered by the Court of Appeal next week. Lawyers acting for Jonathan Beere and Daniel Payne will present judges with fresh expert evidence they say disproves the prosecution’s case that they conspired to use a fishing boat to collect drugs from a container ship in the English Channel and deposited them in Freshwater Bay. The new evidence, uncovered by law charity APPEAL, is based on radar data from a law enforcement vessel which wasn t included at the trial.
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Two members of the ‘Freshwater Five’ – all of whom maintain they are not guilty of a £53m cocaine smuggling plot – will have their convictions considered by the Court of Appeal next week.
Lawyers acting for Jonathan Beere and Daniel Payne will present judges with fresh expert evidence they say disproves the prosecution’s case.
It is said the men conspired to use a fishing boat to collect drugs from a containership in the English Channel and later deposited them in Freshwater Bay off the Isle of Wight.