Food bank’s bananas had cocaine haul

A KILO of cocaine hidden in a crate of bananas was accidentally sent to a food bank after a police blunder.

It was part of an €89million haul found in 96 pallets of the fruit shipped from Colombia to Antwerp, Belgium.

After cops removed the drugs the fruit was given to a charity.

Startled staff found the pack police had missed – worth €55,000 – and called them back.

Four men from Liverpool were later arrested. Lee Hughes, 31, David Taylor, 35, Peter Lewtas, 58, and Peter Scott, 35, denied importing coke but were this week found guilty and all got three years’ jail.

A judge in Amsterdam, Holland, freed them while they appeal.