Border officials have found an £8 million haul of cocaine hidden in tins of carrot juice at Gatwick airport.
Staff at the airport discovered the drugs while carrying out checks on a food shipment which was on board a cargo flight arriving from Jamaica.
The UK Border Agency believes it is the biggest seizure of its kind in British history.
The drugs, weighing around 80 kilos and worth around £8million once cut and sold on the street were in carrot juice tins labelled as foodstuffs, reports the Daily Mail.
During an investigation led by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the shipment was tracked to a number of addresses across London before arriving at premises in Beckenham, south London two days later.
William Hayles, 50, and Randall St Patrick Lewis, 52, have been charged with conspiracy to import controlled drugs, and were remanded in custody until April 26, when they will appear at the Old Bailey, London.
Border Force South director, Carole Upshall, said: ‘This was a major seizure and it demonstrates how Border Force officers are on constant alert to keep illegal drugs and other banned substances out of the UK."
