SIX men charged with smuggling two tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated £160 million are to face trial next year.
They faced a judge for the first time after the authorities stopped a luxury yacht in the English Channel 80 miles off the mainland coast and brought it into Plymouth.
Five of the six men said to be on the Kahu have repeated their not guilty pleas to a joint drugs trafficking count.
Sole Briton Andrew Cole, aged 32, was allowed to defer his plea at Plymouth Crown Court.
Judge Robert Linford set down a trial, set to take up to three weeks, for March 9 next year.
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