Gang who smuggled £42m of drugs into Britain in inflatable boat are jailed after being found with 500kg of cocaine in van outside hotel
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A gang who smuggled £42m worth of drugs into Britain in an inflatable boat have been jailed after they were found with 500kg of cocaine in a van outside a hotel. Daniel Livingstone, 25, was arrested in May this year with 524kg of cocaine in his van outside a hotel in Lelly, East Yorkshire, where he was staying with drug smugglers Mark Moran, 23, and Colombian national Didier Tordecilla Reyes, 40.
![[Livingstone was found at the hotel with Mark Moran (left) and Didier Tordecilla Reyes (right)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/17/93435741-14222195-image-m-18_1734976579590.jpg)
Moran and Reyes had sailed a rigid hulled inflatable boat from a slipway in Hessle, East Yorkshire, having moved the drugs from a larger ship a few hours away, before they returned to Easington Beach, around 18 miles away. Livingston was waiting for the pair and had been seen shining a torch out to sea and talking on his mobile phone before they approached.
![[The recovered cocaine amounted to a street value of £42m and weighed 524kg]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/17/93435719-14222195-image-a-20_1734976595714.jpg)
National Crime Agency (NCA) officers saw Moran and Reyes leave the boat after unloading some bags in the hire van waiting nearby. Moran had been in Norwich earlier in the day, where he drove the van and boat to Grimsby to meet Livingston and Reyes. The trio then drove onto Hessle, where Livingstone stopped to fill two large jerry cans with fuel.
![[The trio prepared and launched the rigid hulled inflatable boat in Humber Bridge, Hessel]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/17/93435693-14222195-image-a-21_1734976617905.jpg)
They were later found at the hotel by officers. Daniel Livingstone, 25, was arrested in May this year with 524kg of cocaine in his van outside a hotel in Lelly, East Yorkshire. Livingstone was found at the hotel with Mark Moran (left) and Didier Tordecilla Reyes (right).
![[The boat had sailed from a slipway in Hessle, East Yorkshire, having moved the drugs from a larger ship a few hours away, before returning to Easington Beach, 18 miles away]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/23/17/93435701-14222195-image-a-22_1734976633380.jpg)
