By Daily Mail Reporter Carefully stacked on a quayside, this is the huge cocaine haul that has landed one of Britain’s most notorious criminals with a jail sentence of  28 years. Bags of the drug were pulled from the sea after the yacht delivering the £150million  haul to this country capsized in a storm. The man behind the failed smuggling operation was John Allen Brooks, 61, nicknamed ‘the Fixer’. Yesterday his lawyers said he has a heart condition and may die behind bars. Piled high: Bags of cocaine are unloaded from a yacht off the west coast of Ireland, in the harbour at Castletown Bere
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Career criminal John Brooks was sentenced after he was caught with 1.5 tonnes of the drug
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His boat, Dances with Waves, was intercepted in 2008 off the Irish coast on its way to Liverpool after collecting cocaine in Venezuela
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He was living in a huge mansion-style villa near Marbella overlooking the mountains, complete with pool
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Brooks was sentenced to 10 years following a drug seizure in 1996 but escaped in 2000 after 'jumping off a cliff and leaping on to a jet ski'
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After his sentence he faces extradition to France to serve a 13 year sentence regarding a 4.2 tonne cannabis seizure in 1989
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