Two drugs smugglers who attempted to import cocaine with a street value of £42 million into the UK on a small boat have been jailed.<br /><br />National Crime Agency officers arrested Daniel Livingstone, 25, on the morning of 4 May this year with 524 kilos of cocaine in his van outside a hotel in Lelley, East Yorkshire.<br /><br />He had stayed the night in the hotel with two other men who conspired with him to smuggle the class A drug; Mark Moran, 23, and 40-year-old Colombian national Didier Tordecilla Reyes.<br /><br />Moran and Reyes had sailed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) from the Hessle slipway before returning hours later with the drugs haul and unloading it at a beach near Easington caravan park.<br /><br />Livingstone was waiting for them and had been seen shining a torch out to sea and talking on his mobile phone before they approached.<br /><br />NCA officers observed Moran and Reyes ditch the RHIB on the beach after unloading a number of bags into the van.<br /><br />Earlier in the day Moran, of Ardrishaig, Argyll and Bute, was in Norwich where he drove a hire van and the RHIB up to Grimsby.<br /><br />There, he met Livingstone, from Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, and Reyes. The offenders drove on to Hessle and Livingstone stopped to fill two large jerry cans with fuel.<br /><br />The NCA investigation was supported by Humberside Police, who provided maritime and roads policing assistance, and Border Force who provided maritime advice.
