£99k cocaine plotter to appeal sentence

A UK man who was jailed for more than 14 years for his part in a plot to smuggle £99,000 worth of cocaine to the Island is to appeal his sentence.

Adrian Larcombe of Nottingham was jailed after a trial heard his fingerprints were on a fridge shipped to the Island in 2023 which contained almost a kilogramme of the class A drug.

He was jailed for 14 and a half years last November after a three-day trial at the Court of General Gaol Delivery.

His case will be considered by Judge of Appeal Cross at a directions hearing on Monday, February 2.