£6.5m of cocaine is found on fruit ship

By The Newsroom

Published 26th May 2012, 01:00 BST

Cocaine with a street value of £6.5 million has been found on a ship bringing bananas and pineapples to the UK.

British Border Force and Dutch authorities found 33kg of the illegal drug on the vessel Hope Bay after it arrived at Portsmouth from Santa Marta in Colombia on 30 April.