Where do you hide out when you've just smuggled £42million worth of cocaine into Britain from a Colombian drug cartel? <br /><br />For Daniel Livingstone and Mark Moran, the amateurish pair from rural Scotland with no criminal past, it was the warmth of a good old-fashioned British pub that called their names.<br /><br />Having imported more than half a tonne of cocaine onto the East Yorkshire coast, they mustered just half an hour on the road before booking a night at a local inn alongside their Colombian cartel middleman, Didier Tordecilla Reyes.<br /><br />Perhaps the trio would sleep well, believing they had pulled off a high-risk smuggling operation that would have guaranteed them a life-changing payday and satisfied the kingpins in both Europe and South America.<br /><br />But their ill-conceived plan would come crashing down when they were intercepted in the pub car park by National Crime Agency officers who discovered 524 kilos of cocaine in the back of a hire van last May.<br /><br />Moran, 22, and Livingstone, 55, were jailed for 15 years and 7 years, respectively, last December. Reyes, meanwhile, was yesterday jailed for 13-and-a-half years for his role in acting as the go-between with Colombian drug cartel bosses.<br /><br />How the pair with no previous criminal convictions between them ended up working with a Colombian drug cartel left Judge Mark Bury 'bewildered'.<br /><br />'It's puzzling to try and work out how you became involved,' the judge said about the unassuming pair from the Scottish countryside. <br /><br />Their lawyers suggested it was the 'lure of easy money' that led them down a 'dark path'. Unfortunately for Livingstone, Moran, and Reyes, it turns out smuggling half a tonne of cocaine into Britain isn't that 'easy'.<br /><br />The investigation heard how the drugs were of a very high purity of '86-89 per cent', and it was hailed as 'one of the largest seizures' at the time. <br /><br />As one investigator for Britain's FBI put it: 'There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold into communities around the UK.'<br /><br />The Daily Mail can today reveal the undercover footage which helped snare the three men, from the moment they bought their boat to launching it into the water and unloading the cocaine on the beach under the cover of darkness hours later.<br /><br />Footage from April 25, 2024, shows Moran buying the rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) at Humber Ribs in Tull city centre, which the group planned to use for their smuggling mission.<br /><br />A day later, the RHIB is seen attached to the back of a people carrier, with the group seen filling up Jerry cans for fuel. <br /><br />They then waited until May 3 before launching the inflatable boat from Humber Bridge, Hessell, on the East Yorkshire coast.<br /><br />The group can be seen reversing the RHIB into the water using a trailer. Moran and Reyes then drove it down the Humber estuary and into the North Sea before picking up the consignment.<br /><br />A few hours later, night vision cameras picked them up arriving back on the coast at Easington, where they unloaded the cocaine from the boat into a hire v
