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- A pilot who tried to use a plane to smuggle four people from Belgium to Britain has been jailed.
- Richard Styles joked with police when he was arrested, saying "I normally get arrested for drugs."
- Styles was previously jailed for using a small plane to smuggle ecstasy and cannabis.
A pilot once jailed for smuggling drugs in a light aircraft has been sentenced again – this time for trying to smuggling people.
Richard Styles, 53, was sentenced to seven years, alongside fellow pilot Silvano Turchet and taxi driver Vijayakumar Sivakumar, for trafficking three men and a woman who were trying to evade immigration checks from Belgium to Britain.