Drug smuggling

Pilot arrested on toilet with his trousers down after smuggling £2.4m of cocaine into Britain

A pilot is facing jail after being arrested on the toilet with his trousers down as he smuggled cocaine worth more than £2.4 million into the UK.

Dutch national John Buwalda, 49, was held by National Crime Agency officers in a Holiday Inn near Rochester Airport in Kent shortly after flying in from the Netherlands in a light aircraft.

Minutes earlier, his accomplice, Jan Polak, had been arrested outside the hotel carrying 48lb (22kg) of cocaine with a high purity level.

Following a trial at the Old Bailey, the pair were both found guilty of plotting to smuggle in the Class A drugs in June.