Arms smugglers who dealt in terror weapons face jail

ROCHESTER

A gang of arms dealers who organised the largest single importation of automatic firearms in the UK’s history are facing years behind bars today (Thurs).Harry Shilling, 25, and Michael Defraine, 30, used a specially adapted boat to import deadly AK-47-type weapons similar to those used in the Paris terror attacks. Armed police swooped after the Albernina docked in Kent last August with its ‘evil cargo’ of 22 VZ-58 assault rifles, nine Skorpion sub-machine guns, two silencers and more than 1,000…

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