Turkish sailors

Turkish sailors sentenced over UK's biggest cocaine haul

The 2,903 kilograms of cocaine was found on a ship intercepted off the east coast of Scotland last year after some swift international co-operation between Britain and Tanzania.

The discovery was the biggest class A drug find ever made in Britain.

The traffickers had hidden the drugs, wrapped in 128 bales together weighing as much as a grown elephant, in a tank deep within the hull of the vessel.

The haul, worth AU$865 million, was being shipped over to the Netherlands after travelling from South America via Guyana and Tenerife, prosecutors said.