Tobacco smuggler brought back from Spain to serve prison term
The Most Wanted fugitives fled abroad either before or during their trial. John Sabin, part of a major tobacco smuggling gang, fled to Spain after being convicted of his involvement in smuggling more illicit cigarettes into the UK. He was traced to a bar in Spain and has been brought back to serve a two years and nine months jail sentence which he was given in his absence, plus an extra three months for absconding.
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