Couples ‘flogged aircraft parts to Iran’

Two married couples accused of supplying embargoed aircraft parts to Iran will stand trial next September. Alexander George, 75, acted as a broker with substantial contracts to source and supply Iranian aviation firms with parts and components for planes and helicopters through companies he owned in Malaysia and Dubai, it is said. One of his suppliers, Pairs Aviation, is owned by his co-defendants, Paul and Iris Attwater, both 64, from Crawley, West Sussex. George is said to have sourced parts…