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Big sentences for drug smugglers

acht skipper Gary Swift, 53, and crew Scott Kilgour, 41,. The yacht was intercepted off the coast of Wales in August 2019 and taken to Fishguard where Border Force and National Crime Agency officers discovered 751 kilos of cocaine. The pair had sailed from the Canary Islands to Suriname to pick up the drugs.

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