Woman finds stashed of pure cocaine worth £4billion washed up on beach neat Isle of Wight. The police have been on a hunt of a 'mysterious man' after the evidence was handed over to the authorities.
On Saturday Kayt Wolfe stumbled across something of considerable value. She discovered a zip-up bag with packages of what is believed to be cocaineNestling beneath sandstone cliffs dating back 200 million years, the beaches along the Isle of Wight's rugged Jurassic Coast are a magnet for fossil hunters.
Unsure of what she had found, and not wishing to waste police time, the 57-year-old life coach fetched a knife from her clifftop home, near the village of Brighstone, and opened one of the parcels — a laborious process that involved cutting through several layers of clingfilm and rubber.Pristine in its purity and perfectly dry despite being tossed about in the sea, perhaps for many days, this was uncut cocaine. An internet search told her its UK street value was about £100,000 per kilo.
Though he assured an onlooker — who had also discovered a drug parcel while litter-picking — that he would hand in his £100,000 windfall, he has so far failed to do so. Shades here of Whisky Galore!, the 1949 film remade in 2016, in which opportunistic islanders loot thousands of bottles of Scotch washed up from a cargo ship wrecked off the Outer Hebrides.
For last Wednesday, as Kayt showed me where she found the zip-up bag, near the access steps to the Pearl Chine , we made yet another extraordinary discovery. We called the police and within an hour another £200,000 worth of pure cocaine was being sealed into evidence bags. More grist for the National Crime Agency, that is investigating the source of this pernicious cargo.
This time last year, a walker found 30 sacks of cocaine worth £42 million on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth, and in August a beach cleaner uncovered a bag worth £100,000 lying in the sand at Bude, Cornwall. On September 27, their Irish counterparts scored a further victory. Commandos rappelled from a helicopter to board one of the South American suppliers' mother ships, the 600ft MV Matthew, off the coast of Cork, and found two tonnes of uncut cocaine worth £130 million hidden in a lifeboat.
Despite such successes, Britain remains awash with cocaine, and buying it has seldom been cheaper or easier. 'It's not always someone's fault. There might be a miscommunication. There might be a risk of being caught . When so much cocaine comes through there's always a risk you might lose something.' In his day, he tells me, packages of cocaine were never dropped in the sea for collection because of the difficulty in seeing the bags bobbing around in the waves. Even allowing for improved tracking devices, he doesn't think tactics will have changed much.
'But it's one thing having the bravado to take on a venture like that, and another to run the gauntlet when you get near your destination. People can panic and change their mind, and the cargo gets thrown overboard. I think that's what happened here.'But whatever happened, unless it was a natural disaster somebody will get the blame, and they'll have to pay for it. They always do.
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