“I normally get arrested for drugs” – pilot joked with officers after arrest over botched people smuggling attempt

A British pilot and career criminal has been jailed alongside two other men in connection with a plot to fly four Albanian illegal immigrants into the UK.

As part of a National Crime Agency investigation, Richard Styles, aged 53 and from St Albans, Hertfordshire, was arrested at Deenethorpe Airfield near Corby, Northamptonshire, in March 2022.
He had just flown his twin-engine plane to the airfield from Belgium, carrying with him three men and a woman who were all attempting to evade immigration checks.
Pictured (left to right): Richard Styles, Silvano Turchet and Vijayakumar Sivakumar

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