Corrupt UK Border Force officer jailed for 23 years

A corrupt UK Border Force officer who plotted to smuggle guns and drugs worth millions of pounds into the UK was jailed for 23 years today (fri). Simon Pellett, 37, along with David Baker, 55, and Alex Howard, 35, 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 Pellett’s government transit van,…