A cocaine dealer caught red-handed making a delivery to Swansea was the former "lieutenant" of an Irish drug boss who fled to Spain following the killing of a crime reporter, according to police.
Peter "Fatso" Mitchell moved to the Costa del Sol after a police crackdown in the wake of the assassination of journalist Veronica Guerin in Dublin in 1996.
The 51-year-old was caught on the M4 near Bridgend in 2020 with three kilos of cocaine hidden in boxes of nappies after police were able to access encrypted messages sent by an organised crime group involved in a conspiracy to ship £1.8m of cocaine to south Wales.
