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Crosby man jailed for five years for smuggling racket
Apr 16 2009 by Laura Jones, Crosby Herald
A PROLIFIC Waterloo smuggler, who attempted to bring more than four million cigarettes through Liverpool docks, was handed a five year jail sentence for his crime.
Sentencing Kevin Kearney, of Brooke Road West, for his role in the £815,514 international conspiracy his honour Judge Hale QC said the 54-year-old was “driven by greed.”
Kearney was described in Warrington Crown Court yesterday as a prolific and repetitive cigarette smuggler.
In 2007, revenue and customs officers arrested and charged Kearney, and co-defendant Gabriel McLaughlin, of Warrington, with conspiracy to smuggle the cigarettes.
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