Preston and Chorley men charged over plot to smuggle £140m cocaine to Wigan
Three men from Chorley and a fourth from Preston have been charged over a plot to smuggle £140million of cocaine into the UK.
The drugs, which weighed 1.3 tonnes, were discovered in August last year in a shipping container at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk, after they arrived from Sierra Leone in west Africa.
The class A drugs had a street value of £140m and were hidden in 20 kilo sacks with a cover load of flour and were destined to be delivered to an industrial estate in Wigan.