Drug smugglers jailed over £40m cocaine plot
The drugs were dropped from a container ship in international waters off the Isle of Wight .
Harry Kennedy, 38, became involved in the plot on 18 August when his friend Brown asked him to help move the cocaine once it was ashore.
Powner, 62, of Park Road, Stoke-on-Trent, also recruited drivers and bought equipment.
He managed to escape arrest and fled abroad. But after an NCA investigation to trace him, he was arrested in Romania in May and extradited to the UK.
Watts was Jamieson's right-hand man and "instrumental to the conspiracy", the NCA said.
He took charge of a prepaid credit card that was set up to fund the conspiracy and sourced locations for the boat to land.
Five members of the landing party on Medmerry Beach - Charlotte Blenman, Roy Harmer, Neil Pinchbeck, 43, Thomas Stewart, 40 and Ricky Platt, 49 - all admitted assisting an organised crime group.
Following a trial, Jamieson, Watts and Paterson were found guilty of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine
Brown, Kennedy, Powner and Nolan had admitted the same charge.
NCA senior investigating officer Jules Harriman said: "Had their smuggling attempt worked, these toxic drugs would have brought misery and violence to many communities around the country.
"The crime group responsible for supplying these offenders has lost their drugs and massive profits that can no longer be ploughed back into further offending."
