«Breaking News» Aristocrat's agony as Kenyan court refuses to drop £4.5million drugs case

It was supposed to be the day Jack Marrian’s three-year nightmare finally came to an end.

Accused of smuggling £4.5million of cocaine, he had been threatened with up to 30 years in prison.

But the aristocrat’s hopes of walking free from a Kenyan courtroom were dashed yesterday when a magistrate refused to clear him – despite prosecutors dropping the case.

Mr Marrian, 33, grandson of the late Earl of Cawdor, sank his head in his hands as Derrick Koto announced his ruling.

Aristocrat Jack Marrian, 33, was pictured with his head in his hands today, alongside partner Emanuela, right, after a Kenyan court refused to throw out a £4.5million cocaine smuggling case against him

The Briton was arrested in 2016 after 100kg of cocaine in black plastic sacks was found on a container ship in Mombasa, Kenya – hidden among bags of brown sugar addressed to his trading company.

Mr Marrian spent two weeks in prison while a record £500,000 bail bond was raised. 

But the Mail last week revealed that Kenyan prosecutors had decided to abandon their case and were asking for it to be formally dismissed by the courts.

The businessman’s acquittal was said to be a mere formality – but Mr Koto claimed the timing of the application to end the case was ‘suspicious, an abuse of powers and did not serve the public interest’.

He said the director of public prosecutions (DPP) claimed to have new information but it had not been passed to the court, and added state lawyers had previously ‘prosecuted [the case] with zeal, bringing witnesses from far and wide’.

Mr Koto quoted two precedents in which magistrates had refused a DPP’s application for acquittal, but Mr Marrian’s lawyers described the decision as ‘unusual and totally out of turn’. 

They will now appeal, with the next hearing due to take place at the end of next month. Mr Marrian, whose parents have lived in Kenya since he was five, remains on bail.

He was pictured last week embracing Italian partner Emanuela (left) after believing the three-year ordeal was over when prosecutors announced their intention to drop the case

The Briton was distraught as he left court yesterday, with his Italian girlfriend Emanuela trying to console him. 

His lawyer Andrew Wandabwa said he would challenge the decision in a higher court and ultimately the Supreme Court if necessary. 

Mr Marrian’s legal team say prosecutors have been unable to produce any evidence against him since his arrest. 

Their final witness, police investigator Sheila Kipsoi, broke down giving evidence when she was forced to admit the anti-narcotics squad had failed to link Mr Marrian to the cocaine haul.

A court heard last week that new information which cleared Mr Marrian had come to the DPP’s office in Nairobi, and the case should be withdrawn – a turn of events that Mr Marrian’s mother Lady Emma Campbell had described as a ‘huge relief’. 

The DPP accepted that Mr Marrian had no knowledge of the cocaine. Drug enforcement agents had told of their surveillance of a gang using the sugar to hide cocaine in shipping containers at docks in Brazil.

Mr Marrian was implicated in the drugs scam after 100kg of cocaine, pictured, was found on a container ship in Mombasa, Kenya, addressed to his trading firm

Mr Marrian was also pictured embracing his father David, pictured, last week but now faces an uncertain future

The crooks planned to offload the drugs in the Spanish port of Valencia – but the container in which the drugs were hidden travelled to Mombasa on a different ship.

Mr Marrian, managing director of Mshale Commodities, had been expecting 22 container-loads of sugar. Days before the delivery was due, he was arrested by armed police.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration declared in a letter: ‘It is clear from intelligence that the load was placed in the container unbeknownst to the owner of the sugar. This is a common occurrence used by traffickers.

‘There was no indication the cocaine was to be received by anyone in Kenya or Uganda and the company owning the consignment had no knowledge that the cocaine was secreted inside their shipment of sugar.’

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