Border Force agent ‘helped gang smuggle drugs and guns through Chunnel’

A gang of ‘premier league’ criminals enlisted a corrupt Border Force agent to smuggle £1m worth of drugs and firearms into the UK through the Channel Tunnel, a court heard. French police seized 34.6kg of cocaine, 6.6kg of heroin, 11 loaded handguns and silencers from serving BF officer Simon Pellett’s government transit van when they arrested him near Calais, northern France, it is claimed. Pellett, 36, and three British nationals are being held in France after a raid at around…