Pair Jailed Over UK's Biggest Gun Smuggling Plot

The mastermind behind a plot to smuggle guns worth £100,000 into Britain has been sentenced to 35 years. 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. The weapons included 22 assault rifles similar in style to Russian made AK-47s, nine deadly submachine guns capable of firing 800 rounds a minute, 58 magazines, two silencers and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.