Elderly couple ‘duped into supplying aircraft parts to Iran’

A naive couple who were ‘groomed’ into supplying embargoed components for Iran’s nuclear programme have been spared jail. Paul Attwater, 65, and Iris Attwater, 66, smuggled prohibited aircraft parts to Alexander George, 76, in Malaysia from their company Pairs Aviation. But the couple were handed suspended sentences after Mr Attwater insisted he had no idea the ‘nuts and bolts’ he was exporting had a military application. George, who is due to be sentenced next month, acted as a broker between…