When Border Force vessel HMC Valiant intercepted the boat, one defendant said "we're f***ed." £100 million pounds worth of high quality cocaine was found on the Lily Lola. Credit: National Crime ...

The UK Border Force cutter HMC Valiant (Alamy/PA) An inquiry into the deadliest Channel crossing on record has heard that, despite repeated distress calls from migrants on board a sinking boat to ...

The Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was on patrol off the north coast of Cornwall just after 2pm on September 13, 2025, and ...

Four men have been convicted of attempting to smuggle £100 million of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall. Michael Kelly, 45, from Portway, Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no ...

Shortly after 2pm on that day, the Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was on patrol off the north coast of Cornwall and deployed a smaller boat to intercept the Lily Lola. Williams, the captain ...

A man from Manchester was caught on a fishing boat packed with more than a ton of cocaine said to be worth £100m off the coast of Cornwall. Michael John Paul Kelly, 45, of Portway, Wythenshawe, told ...

The fishing vessel was stopped by Border Force's HMC Valiant as it came into port. A Home Office spokesperson, speaking on behalf of the Border Force stated that officers "successfully intercepted ...

After the Border Force received the initial call at 1.30am, their HMC Valiant vessel did not leave Dover until 2.22am and 'took another hour to reach the last known location of the boat'.