A Columbian man who attempted to flee the UK with £46m worth of cocaine on a small boat with two Scottish smugglers has been jailed.

Didier Tordecilla Reyes, 40, has been caged for 13-and-a-half years after he was arrested by police officers at a hotel in Lelley, East Yorkshire, in May last year, reports The Record.

He had stayed overnight in the hotel with Daniel Livingstone, from Campbeltown, and Mark Moran, from Ardrishaig, who conspired with him to smuggle the class A drug.

The drugs were hidden inside a hire van parked outside. Reyes acted as a contact with Colombian drug cartels and flew into the UK especially to participate in the smuggling attempt.

He and Moran had sailed a rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) from the Hessle, Yorkshire, slipway before returning hours later w

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