Update 2: Drugs trial: Colombian jailed 18 years, fined €20,000

Colombian national Jose Pena was this evening jailed for 18 years and fined €20,000 after jurors found him guilty of conspiring to traffic drugs.

Domingo Navas, 33, of Panama, was found not guilty.

They were both charged with conspiring to traffic in 1.5 kilogrammes of drugs, worth €133,000, in 2006.

The men had been arrested after Enrique Martinez Burgoa, a 43-year-old Mexican drug mule, was first caught with the drugs at the airport and then turned police informant.

He was made to phone his contacts, asking them simply to “pick up the drugs”. The accused were arrested when they went to Mr Burgoa’s hotel room even if he had not given them any directions or told them where he was staying.

Their lengthy drug trail has been characterised by bickering lawyers, who at one point even had to be told off by the judge.