A PENSIONER from Silsden has been jailed for 10 years and a man from Bradford for eight years for their roles in a botched £200 million transatlantic cocaine-smuggling plot.

John Powell, 70, was handed 10 years for skippering a yacht intercepted off the Irish coast last year with 41 bales of the drug onboard.

Benjamin Mellor, 35, of Bradford, and Thomas Britteon, 28, of Grimsby, north east Lincolnshire, were sentenced to eight years each for their roles.

All three were arrested on board the luxury yacht Makayabella, which was found last September in poor condition in the Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles off the south west coast of Ireland.