Juan Pedro Carpentier, 64, was one of four Europeans arrested in 2017 when a luxury cruise ship pulled into Sydney with 30 kilograms of cocaine allegedly hidden on board.
A French pensioner facing life imprisonment for importing cocaine told police that he agreed to bring the drugs into Australia after people he met on a beach in Mexico asked him to deliver them to Fremantle.
The foursome left Britain in mid-October 2017 aboard the Astor, travelling through France, Portugal, Mexico, Barbados and New Zealand for six weeks before arriving in Sydney. Federal police said that security footage showed him in St John’s, Antigua, bringing aboard a bag identical to the one found full of cocaine in the cushion storage box.
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