Perry Wharrie, 48, a career criminal, from Loughton, Essex, was one of four men convicted of attempting to smuggle the largest ever haul of cocaine into Ireland and Britain. He was arrested after a drugs-laden boat capsized in rough seas off the coast of west Cork last summer.A convicted police killer is starting a 30-year jail sentence for his role in a botched £350 million drug smuggling operation.After a ten-week trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Wharrie and two other men were given a total of 85 years in prison over the drugs operation. Martin Wanden, 45, of no fixed abode, was also jailed for 30 years while Joe Daly, 41, of Bexley, Kent, was given a 25-year prison sentence. A fourth man, Gerard Hagan, 24, of Liverpool, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in November.
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