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Men caught with £37m of cocaine in boat off Suffolk coast jailed

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Bruce Knowles , 56 , of Dereham , Norfolk , and Ferhat Gumrukguoglu , 32 , from the Netherlands , tried to sneak 37 m of cocaine into the UK .

The pair had trialled a "dry run" of the operation in April before attempting the real thing two months later .

Knowles was jailed for 17 years and three months at Ipswich Crown Court .

Judge said it was "clearly a sophisticated [operation]".

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