Nicholas and Pamela Fullwood were sentenced alongside Azad Ahmadi on Monday
By Liam Barnes & PA news agencyA husband and wife who joined a people smuggling ring to pay off debts have been sentenced.
Mr Fullwood was also stopped by French authorities in December 2018 after hiring a van and trying to bring in five people.Mr Fullwood, 48, was sentenced to three years in prison, while 45-year-old Mrs Fullwood was handed a two-year suspended sentence, after both pleaded guilty before a trial to conspiracy to assist with unlawful immigration.
He and his wife, from Wingfield Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, were later caught trying to smuggle two Iraqis hidden inside furniture inside another hired van while their daughter, then aged 13, travelled with them. Sentencing, Recorder Michael Turner said Ahmadi was "at the head of" the operation, adding there "was an element of desperation" in Mr Fullwood's involvement.
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