In what reads like a Hollywood movie script, the calamitous series of bungles that led to $73 million worth of drugs ending up on a barren island off Western Australia's coast can be revealed for the first time.
A disastrous chain of events that foiled one of Australia's biggest drug smuggling operations reads like a Hollywood movie script.Details of the bungles that led to their arrest were previously suppressedThe undoing of an international drug ring that saw $73 million worth of drugs end up on a barren island off Western Australia's coast involved a calamitous pocket dial, two shipwrecked yachts and a giant seal.
A plane was deployed and when police arrived, they found two men – Dicenta and British national Graham Palmer. From there they went to Richards Bay in South Africa where on August 27, Dicenta used his mobile phone to record two whales swimming nearby.Pocket call records drug handover Data from the Zero and other electronic devices found on board the vessel enabled investigators to plot its course across the Indian Ocean to Western Australia.
The Bayliner, or DW 140 as it was referred to in court, had three men on board, Angus Jackson from New South Wales, American Jason Lassiter and British national, Scott Jones.
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