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My dad wasn’t the mastermind behind a coke smuggling plot, he was just lobster fishing with pals

Maisie Beere was a child when her father Jonathan was jailed for being one of the so-called lobster-pot drug smugglers, dubbed the Freshwater Five. Ten years on from the bust, she is speaking for the first time,, “I don’t know how we would have got through it if my mum hadn’t been such a pillar of strength since Dad went to jail.” Today we can reveal the incredible story of the Freshwater Five — jailed for a combined 104 years — through the eyes of two of their children. >click to read< 11:36