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David Philip McDermott, the British National alleged to have smuggled 400 kilos of cocaine, is set to be extradited to the UK following an Accra High Court ruling.

The court, presided over by judge Merley Efua Wood, said there were sufficient grounds for McDermott to be extradited.

The judge further ordered for McDermott to be kept in Police custody as he waits to be extradited.

McDermott was arrested in Ghana in connection with a smuggling plot to import £71 million worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom.

The man who is married to the daughter of the immediate past governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah, is said to be a member of an organised crime syndicate from Liverpool and has been on the run for three-years.

He is believed to be responsible for a failed smuggling operation discovered by Border Force at Tilbury Docks in May 2013, when officers seized 400kg (881Ibs) of cocaine smuggled into the country in a container of frozen Argentinian beef.