Freshwater Five: radar casts doubt on guilty verdict for £53m cocaine haul

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Lawyer appealing for release of fishermen says evidence shows their boat was in wrong place for drugs transfer off Isle of White

It began like most other fishing trips for the crew of the Galwad. The sea was choppier than they’d have liked but the four men on board were hopeful of rich pickings in the spring tides off the Isle of Wight.

 

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When I lived on the IOW in the late 90's there were always lots of stories about major drug shipments coming through the 'Back of the Wight'.

A glance at the Appeal shows that there was a lot more to the FreshwaterFive case than a few guys going fishing and happening across a drugs drop. You can't trust a paper when it only quotes the defence case. innocencefraud

A glance at the Appeal shows that there was a lot more to the FreshwaterFive case than a few guys going fishing and happening across a drugs drop. You can't trust a paper when it only quotes the defence case. innocencefraud

You can’t spell Isle Of Wight in your sub-head correctly, White?! C’mon Guardian.

I believe two of the five have already been released, presumably on good behaviour. However, there is much suspicious evidence e.g. through the night, a number of calls were made to the satellite phone on the fishing boat from a mobile handset purchased that day with a fake name.

Suppression of evidence, blocked record requests, disbanding of Soca unit and a boat full of patsies. All the ingredients for a proper frame up. This type of corruption takes a lot of coordination

WIGHT. Guardian 'journo' obvs got the white stuff on the mind

Perhaps they ought to check out the ‘lifestyles’ of the SOCA officers involved. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were importing the drugs and decided to pin it on the fishermen when it went tits up. Has echos of the dodgy dealings of the old Flying Squad from the 60/70s.

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Is this on Netflix?

Is this on Netfix?

I think you mean the Isle of WIGHT

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