Police arrest second man over £10million cocaine haul at Newhaven Ferry Port

The 43-year-old was detained on suspicion of conspiring to import class a drugs at an address in Ashley Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Sunday (March 29), the NCA said, in an operation supported by Hampshire Police.

He was questioned by NCA investigators before being bailed pending further enquiries, it confirmed.

His arrest follows the discovery of the class A drugs in the early hours of November 23, last year.

Border Force officers recovered 97 packages each containing approximately a kilo of cocaine. They were concealed in a load of frozen fish in the rear of a refrigerated van searched by Border Force as it came off a ferry.

The drugs had an estimated potential value of around £10million, the NCA said.

The driver, 50-year-old James Satterley from Cookham in Maidenhead, was later charged with importing class A drugs. He now awaits trial.

NCA branch operations manager Martin Matthews said: “Our investigation into this importation continues.

“Working with partners like Border Force and policing we are determined to do all we can to disrupt the organised crime groups involved in the large-scale importation of class A drugs.”