The Latest Breaking News from Cocaine

Drug smugglers caught with £37m of cocaine in inflatable boat are jailed

Both smugglers leapt overboard and unsuccessfully attempted to swim to shore to escape Border Force

The Independent UK · May 17, 2025

Ship carrying cocaine and MDMA worth £320m seized by Indonesia

Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws

The Independent UK · May 16, 2025

British father jailed for 40 years in Dubai after being caught with cocaine

Sam Dorman will be in his 70s when released if he serves the full sentence in Dubai

Evening Standard · May 16, 2025

Sir Bradley Wiggins says he is ‘lucky to be here’ after cocaine addiction

The 45-year-old said there was a time he feared being found dead by his children.

The Independent UK · May 13, 2025

Bradley Wiggins details battle with cocaine addiction: ‘I was walking a tightrope’

The five-time Olympic gold medalist has revealed he spiralled into the problem after retiring in 2016

The Independent UK · May 13, 2025

'I was doing loads of cocaine... my kids were going to put me into rehab': Bradley Wiggins on recreational drug use, Lance Armstrong's help and finding a new love for cycling

Wiggins opens up on the personal trauma which engulfed him post-retirement and put him in some 'very dangerous' situations after he became addicted to cocaine

Cycling Weekly · May 13, 2025

No 10 hits out at ‘desperate’ Russia after claims about drugs on leaders’ train

False claims about cocaine being on the table as Sir Keir Starmer met the French and German leaders were dismissed as ‘fake news’.

Evening Standard · May 12, 2025

France derides Russia’s false claim of drug use by Macron, Merz and Starmer

Élysée warns against Kremlin’s disinformation efforts after ‘cocaine’ conspiracy theory spreads online

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2025

Fact check: Macron, Merz and Starmer targeted by Russian 'cocaine' claims

The allegations that the leaders of France, Germany and the UK took drugs while on a train on their way to Kyiv are part of a wider Russian disinformation campaign.

Euronews · May 12, 2025

Dramatic moment police storm boat and seize over £300m-worth of cocaine off Australian coast

This is the moment five men were arrested off the Australian coast after New South Wales police seized over a tonne of cocaine from a vessel.

The Independent UK · May 12, 2025