Wetherspoons barman led £100million cocaine smuggling gang and used private jet to bring in drugs from Colombia

A WETHERSPOONS barman led a £100million cocaine smuggling gang.

Alessandro Iembo, 28, used a private jet to bring in the drugs from Colombia.

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Iembo, who pulled pints at Bournemouth’s Mary Shelley pub, recruited bricklayer pal Martin Neil, 48, Spanish waiter Victor Franco-Lorenzo, 40, and hairdresser Jose Miguelez-Botas, 56.

Last December the gang paid £138,000 for a private jet to fly them to Bogota.

They posed as wealthy crypto-currency dealers and music bigwigs heading to a Bruno Mars gig as cover for a successful smuggling trip, believed to have netted £60million.

A month later, after another Colombia trip, Border Force officers at Farnborough airport, Hants, found drugs worth £41million in 15 suitcases.

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The four men were yesterday convicted at London’s Woolwich crown court of smuggling drugs.

Italian-born Iembo and Franco-Lorenzo, both of Bournemouth, and Neil, of Poole, Dorset, were all jailed for 24 years.

Miguelez-Botas, of Valladolid, got 20 years.

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