A crook who was part of a £1 million cocaine smuggling operation foiled at Sheerness docks has been ordered by a judge to repay just £1. Sean Bourke, from Minster, must hand over the paltry sum despite a court being told his financial benefit from his crime, which involved 10kg of the class A drug being hidden in a shipment of bananas, was as much as £929,942. The 35-year-old was jailed in August last year for seven-and-a-half years after the illicit enterprise was intercepted by the National Crime Agency (NCA). But under what is known as confiscation proceedings held at Maidstone Crown Court …
