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British aristocrat's son bailed in Kenya over $5.8m drugs bust

British national Jack Alexander Wolf Marrian (right), flanked by a Kenyan police officer, appears in court in Nairobi on August 8, 2016, where he faces charges of trafficking 100 kilos of cocaine from Brazil to the port of Mombasa. PHOTO | AFP

A British aristocrat's son facing charges of trafficking $5.8 million worth of cocaine was bailed on Friday after a Kenyan judge ruled prosecutors' attempts to keep him in custody were without merit.

Jack Marrian, 31, is facing a potential life sentence after police in the eastern port city of Mombasa seized a 100-kilo (220 pound) stash of cocaine in a sugar consignment ordered by British firm ED&F Man on July 29.

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