Man Jailed For 35 Years Over Gun Smuggling Plot

The mastermind behind a plot to smuggle guns worth £100,000 into Britain has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Harry Shilling, 25, from Swanley, Kent was found guilty in April of smuggling 31 automatic rifles and pistols from eastern Europe into Britain via the River Medway in Kent. His co-conspirator Michael Defraine, 30, from Bexleyheath, southeast London, was sentenced to 32 years for the same offence.