HE TELLS COPS ABOUT CROOK PALS’

JAILED cocaine cruise grandad Roger Clarke is spilling the beans on crooks he said duped him into smuggling drugs.

The Brit gave police details and snaps of associates who he says fooled him into moving cocaine across the Atlantic.

He and wife Sue are serving eight years in a Lisbon jail after police found £1million of the drug in their suitcases’ lining.

In a letter written in prison, Clarke, 72, said: “I can give information that would help the police stop some of the smuggling of hard drugs into the UK.

“Why didn’t the Portuguese police pass all the information we gave them on to the English police? We gave them names, telephone numbers and my wife even had pictures on her ipad.”

Clarke, originally from Bromley, South London, says he first turned to the drugs trade to try to save his struggling restaurant business in Spain. The former chef claims a customer once paid him 2,000 euros to smuggle 10kg of cannabis in a car.

“He asked me to do more but I refused,” Clarke wrote.

“Next thing he returned with a couple of guys, beat me up and said if I didn’t continue they would set about Susan plus they knew we had family in Spain and would get at them.”

Police arrested him and his wife on the Marco Polo after it docked at Lisbon on December 4, 2018. Clarke claimed he was handed the cases in St Lucia but did not know drugs were in them. The couple were convicted of trafficking last month.

They are appealing against their sentences and want to return to the UK to a prison nearer their family.