Drug smugglers jailed after jet ski crossing ended in rescue operation when they ran out of fuel
jailed after their attempt to cross the North Sea on a jet ski with £200,000 of cocaine in a backpack ended in a rescue operation when they ran out of fuel.Steven Brogan, 36, and 34-year-old Anthony Reilly, both of Skelmersdale in Lancashire, took the jet ski from the Lowestoft area of Suffolk to a pick-up point in the Netherlands to collect the drugs, Ipswich Crown Court heard.Prosecutor Hugh Vass said that on the return journey on September 30 last year, the pair approached a survey vessel and "asked the crew for some fuel - that request was refused"."At one point they were pitched into the sea," said Mr Vass, adding that one man was showing signs of hypothermia and the other of exhaustion.He said that the Lowestoft RNLI Lifeboat and the