Lawyer appealing for release of fishermen says evidence shows their boat was in wrong place for drugs transfer off Isle of White

It began like most other fishing trips for the crew of the Galwad. The sea was choppier than they’d have liked but the four men on board were hopeful of rich pickings in the spring tides off the Isle of Wight.

They had no idea that the same stretch of the English Channel was that night the focus of a sophisticated policing operation centred on a container ship from Brazil.

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