Going bananas: The fruit that has become a favourite with cocaine smugglers

Five men were sent to jail for a total of 117 years this week for their role in an audacious attempt to smuggle £186 million worth of cocaine into Britain hidden in a consignment of bananas.

But the discovery of the drugs, which came through Portsmouth docks, is only the latest example of international drug smugglers using the same “tried and tested” method.

So why bananas?