A man arrested while making a cocaine delivery to Swansea was the former "lieutenant" of an Irish drug boss who fled to Spain after the killing of Veronica Guerin, according to Welsh police.
Peter "Fatso" Mitchell moved to the Costa del Sol after a police crackdown in the wake of the assassination of the crime journalist in Dublin in 1996.
The 51-year-old was caught red-handed by police on the M4 near Bridgend in 2020 with three kilos of cocaine concealed 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 (€2.15m) of cocaine to south Wales.
