The Freshwater Five: Episode 229

May 2010. When the cocaine was found in the shallow waters off sleepy Freshwater Bay, in the southern Isle of Wight, it was valued at over £50M. Law Enforcement were confident the men they had arrested on the fishing boat were guilty of an elaborate importation. But were they?

Today, in this episode of the UK True Crime podcast, I tell the story of the 'Freshwater Five'.

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• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/18/five-fishermen-a-stormy-night-and-53m-of-cocaine-were-the-freshwater-five-wrongly-convicted
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44319526
• http://appeal.org.uk/freshwater-five
• https://www.islandecho.co.uk/freshwater-five-drugs-conspiracy-court-of-appeal-upholds-convictions-of-isle-of-wight-men/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9401585/Two-members-Freshwater-Five-cocaine-smuggling-gang-lose-fight-clear-names.html
• https://www.thejusticegap.com/freshwater-five-court-of-appeal-told-drug-smuggling-simply-impossible/
• https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/19112205.freshwater-five/
• https://eminetra.co.uk/two-members-of-freshwater-five-lose-appeal-for-drug-conviction-uk-news/372945/
• https://www.5men104years.com/just-a-normal-fishing-trip.html

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