Former Soldiers Smuggle £3.4m of Cocaine Ashore in Sussex - but Get a Surprise

Ex soldiers use military training to smuggle £34mn of cocaine into UK

Alan John Colquhoun, 49, and William Donohoe, 38, used their military knowledge from serving in the British Army to plan an audacious drugs smuggle with three other men.

Former soldiers smuggle £3.4m of cocaine ashore in Sussex - but get a surprise

Two Scottish veterans who used their military training to plan a sophisticated £34m drugs pick-up in the English Channel were jailed for 16 years.

Organiser of £34m cocaine plot handed 16-year prison sentence

William Donohoe, from Craigneuk, Airdrie, has been jailed for 16 years after helping move £34m of cocaine into Eastbourne, England.

Five men sentenced for attempted £34m Eastbourne cocaine smuggle

Multiple parcels of the Class A drug were found onboard a fishing vessel in Eastbourne in June 2026.