Eamon Dillon

gone to work for you know the big cargo ships yeah and so they had an in there and they'd hit up these people when they came home to visit and they more than often get an offer they can't refuse they'd have to get they'd either take the money or face retribution and and in some cases the money was quite good you know you're talking six figure sums a million euro i think was one of them for one of the top guys i mean they had people at a high level on that particular boat

Don't forget the MV Matthew though was three times the size of the one we're talking about in the MV Royal.

So I mean, while MV Moir might be one, Matthew was a whole other, I suppose, level of scale again.

And we don't know if there's ships that have successfully come in with twice what the MV Matthew had.

Yeah, it was slightly bigger again.

It was 840 kilos, probably valued at about 58 million.

Now, I suppose like the MV Royal, the guards didn't get it.

But at the same time, the drug dealers in this case didn't get it.

Right.

But they sent out again one of these kind of rib boats, they're kind of semi-inflatable.

You know, they're ocean going.

This particular one was really well equipped.

Everything that needed to be blacked out was blacked out.

The suspicion is you had one of these cigarette boat drivers from...

You know, from the south of Spain, doing runs for years between Morocco and Spain, had been drafted in.

They clocked up something like just under 1,000 kilometers chasing the cool explorer trying to get this consignment of drugs.

And for whatever reason, they weren't able to do it.

There was two crewmen.

The whole thing was like full of fuel.

You know, they were kind of off the coast of Cornwall at one point, really.