Bent border guard convicted

A corrupt Border Force officer who helped criminals smuggle guns and drugs worth £3.5m into the UK is facing years behind bars. Simon Pellett, 37, planned to bring the deadly cargo of firearms, silencers and bullets back through the Channel Tunnel. But French police swooped in Calais and recovered the contraband, which also included 34kg of cocaine and 6kg of heroin, from Pellet’s government transit van, Isleworth Crown Court heard. Pellett, along with David Baker, 55, and Alex Howard, 35,…