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A 72-year-old drug smuggler who had £1million of cocaine on a cruise has revealed he shares a Portuguese cell with 'rats as big as rabbits'.<br>Roger Clarke has pleaded with Prime Minister  to help secure his release from the notorious EP Lisboa jail.<br>Three judges convicted retired chef Clarke and his ex-secretary wife Sue, 71, of drugs trafficking on a Caribbean liner after a one-day trial last month.<br>They were told they will serve their eight-year sentences in Portugal instead of being kicked out of the country and sent back to Britain.<br>Now Clarke has complained for the first time about the harsh conditions in the jail, and claimed he lost six-stone and had a suspected heart attack.<br>Scroll for video <br>         Roger Clarke (pictured with wife Sue) has pleaded with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help secure his release from the notorious EP Lisboa jail <br>         The officers headed straight for cabin 469, waking its occupants, pensioners Roger and Sue Clarke (pictured) <br>              Police pictures (right and left) show the Clarke's suitcases being taken apart to show the hidden cocaine in the couple's cabin on the cruise ship<br>         Now Clarke has complained for the first time about the harsh conditions in EP Lisboa jail (pictured),  [http://TRAVESTIS-LISBOA.BEAUTY TRAVESTIS PORTO] and claimed he lost six-stone and had a suspected heart attack<br>He also said he and his wife were 'innocent' and he has sent a letter to Mr Johnson begging him to look into the couple's case.<br>Clarke told the : 'The conditions here are really disgusting, no air conditioning, no heating and in many cells not even any lighting.<br>'I've been a little lucky as I'm now on F wing which has single cells with a shower and toilet, mind you it's pot luck if and when you get hot water.<br>'Rats are a menace, some are as large as rabbits, cockroaches by the millions and all sorts of other horrible bugs.'<br>He added: 'F wing is where anyone from another country, such as embassy people, are shown which is why it's kept a lot cleaner than other wings.'<br>                Cocaine worth around £1million was discovered by police in the lining (pictured above) of suitcases Mr Clarke had taken on a luxury cruise from the Caribbean <br>   RELATED ARTICLES              <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>Portuguese police acting on a tip-off from Britain's NCA discovered 9lbs of cocaine hidden inside the lining of four suitcases Clarke had taken from the island of St Lucia<br>Clarke wants to be moved to the mixed-sex Funchal Prison on the island of Madeira with Sue, who is currently in Lisbon's Tires Women's Prison.<br>The pair, originally from Kent but who lived in Guardamar, Spain, were arrested on board cruise liner Marco Polo on December 4, 2018.<br>Portuguese police acted on a tip-off from Britain's National Crime Agency and found 9lbs of cocaine hidden inside the lining of four suitcases Clarke had been handed at St Lucia.<br>          Sue is currently serving her eight-year sentence in Lisbon's Tires Women's Prison (pictured)<br>         But Clarke wants them to both be moved to the mixed-sex Funchal Prison on the island of Madeira (pictured)<br>         Sue and Roger Clarke's Villa in Guardamar, Spain, where they were the life and soul of local bars and members of a golf club before their arrest and conviction for drug trafficking <br>         Clarke, from Bromley, Kent, claimed after his arrest a mysterious UK-based Jamaican businessman called Lee had asked him to negotiate the exotic fruit sales during cruise ship stopovers in the Caribbean and bring back the suitcases 'as a sideline' [File photo]<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox news floatRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-a159e7f0-e812-11e9-9c14-db779aed2cd7" website drugs smuggler, 72, has &apos;rats as big as rabbits&apos; in his cell