Jet ski fugitive gets long WA jail term

Updated June 21 2019 - 7:43pm, first published 7:41pm
David James Jackson took off from Cape York, attempting to flee Australia on a jet ski.
David James Jackson took off from Cape York, attempting to flee Australia on a jet ski.

A British man who fled Australia on a jet ski and made it into Papua New Guinean waters has been handed a long jail term in Perth over the drug charge he was trying to escape.