“A man who tried to smuggle rare clams and corals through Manchester Airport has been jailed.

Alex Montgomery, 23, of Mottram Old Road, Stalybridge, was locked up for six months today at Manchester crown court.

Montgomery pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to smuggle the animals after he was arrested by officers from the UK Border Force at the airport in May last year.

Officers found more than 750 kilograms of rare and endangered corals and clams packed in boxes in air freight sent from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam…”

Source: Manchester Evening News
By: Paul Britton
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