UK gang bought guns from same shop as Charlie Hebdo terrorists
A British crime gang bought the largest haul of automatic weapons ever detected by UK police from the same source in eastern Europe as terrorists behind the Paris attacks of January 2015, it can be revealed.
The 22 Kalashnikov-style assault rifles and nine machine guns were described by police from the National Crime Agency as “mass casualty weapons”. They were intercepted in an operation led by the NCA after being smuggled from eastern Europe to France and across the Channel in a motor boat which docked in Kent last August.
On Thursday, Harry Shilling, 25 and Michael Defraine, 30, two leading members of the organised crime gang based in Kent, were convicted of smuggling the firearms and conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life after a trial at the Old Bailey in London. Three other members of the group pleaded guilty to their part in the plot. All five face possible life imprisonment when they are sentenced on 13 May.
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