Cigarette smugglers get community orders
25.02.07
Two men who tried to smuggle over 27,000 cigarettes through Coventry Airport this month have each received community sentences.
John Carruthers, 35, and Maurice Ferguson, 58, were arrested by customs officers on February 14 after arriving at the airport on a flight from Alicante. The officers found the pair had concealed the 27,000 Lambert and Butler cigarettes in four bags.
If the cigarettes had been sold in the UK, it would have resulted in a loss of revenue to the Treasury of around £4,264, the court was told. Both pleaded guilty at Solihull Magistrates Court.
Carruthers, of Tyne and Wear, was sentenced to 150 hours unpaid community work and ordered to pay £100 costs. Ferguson, of Hetten Le Hole, near Sunderland, was sentenced to 100 hours unpaid community work and ordered to pay £100 costs.
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