Cigarette smugglers avoid jail

Smugglers from Co Tyrone who brought millions worth of cigarettes into the North have avoided prison, it was revealed today.

Aiden Francis Grew, aged 52, and Noel Abernethy, aged 39, were discovered at a Co Armagh address with almost 15 million cigarettes in a lorry and shed in November 2005. Henry McLaughlin, 44, was arrested in July 2006 in connection with the find.