Watch ‘largest-ever’ drugs bust as £450m of cocaine found in bananas

The National Crime Agency and Border Force have made what is believed to be the biggest ever seizure of class A drugs in the UK. The haul of 5.7 tonnes of cocaine was found in a container at Southampton Port on February 8. Details can only now be released. Specialist Border Force officers were called in to carry out the search by the NCA, who identified the shipment through it’s Near Europe Task Force. The blocks of drugs were found hidden within a cargo of bananas which had been transported from South America. Source: PA, National Crime Agency