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THE MEN BEHIND BRITAIN'S BIGGEST ILLEGAL GUN OPERATION WERE JAILED
The pair shipped £100,000 worth of firearms from an alleged IS supplier

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The two men behind Britain's biggest gun smuggling operation to date, comprising some £100,000 worth of firearms, were jailed on Friday and sentenced to a total of 57 years in prison.

Harry Shilling, 26, and Michael Defraine, 30, were found guilty of gun smuggling and possessing firearms with intent to endanger life, picking up 30-year and 25-year sentences, respectively, plus five years each on extended license.

With the help of three other men ranging in age from 24 to 43, Shilling and Defraine smuggled weapons into Kent from Boulogne in France, reportedly from the same source used to procure firearms for the deadly Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January 2015.

"It has been said that it cannot be exaggerated that guns kill and maim, terrorise and intimidate and that's why criminals want them," judge Michael Topolski said during the sentencing.

"The firearms were genuine, fully automatic and in good condition. They were of high calibre. Some of the weapons were loaded and ready to be fired."

Black Market Books
A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE TEACHER WAS CAUGHT SELLING STOLEN TEXTBOOKS
She was earning £58k a year at the time, making an extra £27,000 from the books

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Clare Hughes, an assistant head teacher working at a school in Nottinghamshire, was sentenced to a two-year suspended jail sentence on Friday after being caught stealing and reselling textbooks worth more than £27,000.

Hughes, 41, had been earning a £58,000 annual salary and reselling books stolen from the school online. She was caught out when one of her colleagues replaced a missing book with the same one that Hughes had stolen and resold.

"At a time of tight budgets the books had been expensive to replace and teaching and learning had suffered at the school," head teacher Gill Barker said in a statement. Colleagues who trusted Clare Hughes had been left feeling devastated, in disbelief and betrayed."

In Hughes' defense, her barrister said her theft was a "cry for help" but the trial recorder said, given how much she earned, her reasons for the book side-hustle were "hard to fathom".

Family Relief
THAT JAPANESE BOY WHO WENT MISSING IN THE FOREST WAS FOUND
His parents had temporarily kicked him out of the car before he wandered off

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The 7-year-old boy who'd been missing in a dense Japanese forest since Saturday the 28th of May, when his parents made him get out of the car as a punishment for throwing rocks at people and other cars, was found on Friday.

Yamato Tanooka had been at the centre of a search-and-rescue effort and had found shelter in a military bunker. More than 180 people had been looking for him, according to local news reports, with the military joining the search.

Yamato was found on Friday morning by a soldier preparing for drills (but not affiliated with the search), and the boy was dehydrated but mostly healthy.

"My excessive act gave my son a very painful experience," Yamato's father Takayuki Tanooka told the media outside the hospital. "I made difficulties for people of [his] school and those who searched for him. I deeply apologise to them."

Forever the Greatest
MUHAMMAD ALI DIED AT 74
The boxing legend died in Arizona after being hospitalised on Thursday

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Muhammad Ali died in Arizona on Friday night, after being hospitalised earlier in the week with a respiratory issue.

The three-time world heavyweight boxing champion, whose wit outside the ring and light-footed dexterity inside it became his trademark, grew to be an icon beyond the world of sport by the time he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease aged 42 in 1984.

Ali's refusal of the Vietnam War draft, his outspoken views on race and whiteness in America and his brief conversion to the Nation of Islam – before becoming a Sunni Muslim – all became symbols of his impact and influence beyond boxing.