Drug arrest yachtie also involved in sailor disappearance in 2007

8:29 PM Thu 21 Oct 2010 GMT

'Police have seized an estimated $160m worth of drugs from this yacht off the Queensland coast.' .

One of the yachties arrested last week over Australia's third-largest ever police drug haul has been in the news before in Sail-World, the previous time for the mysterious disappearance of a Coffs Harbour sailor. Andrew Witton from Coff's Harbour in New South Wales was sailing from Tahiti to the Galapagos Islands with his friend Simon Golding, one of those arrested last week, when he disappeared from his yacht, Kaileia, on January 13, 2007. His body has never been found. (See full story ) An inquest at the State Coroner's Court in Sydney's suburb of Glebe later heard that Witton and Golding were ...

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