SarahBryan1 commented Notts man jailed for masterminding plot to smuggle 800,000...

A Retford man has been jailed for masterminding the smuggling of almost 800,000 illegal cigarettes.William McCarthy, 49, of Daneshill Road, Retford, was found to have organised the shipment of 788,800 illegal cigarettes, worth £190,337.44 in unpaid duty, by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators.HMRC raided Shamrock Recovery on Pike Road Industrial Estate, in Kent and caught McCarthy's accomplice Leon Dudley, 35, of no fixed abode, with the cigarettes in February last year.McCarthy,..