Peter Williams, 44, sentenced to almost 17 years after captaining boat that picked up packages off Cornish coast
A respected fisher who met King Charles and government representatives to discuss the future of the industry has been jailed for taking part in a sophisticated plot to smuggle £18m of cocaine into the UK.
Peter Williams, 44, was sentenced to 16 years and nine months for captaining a boat that went out to pick up packages of cocaine dropped into the sea off Cornwall by a “mother ship” transporting the drugs from South America.
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