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A Kent man is among a gang to be jailed for smuggling £35 million of cocaine to the UK by boat. Stephen Lloyd-Jones, Kursat Kizilkaya and Tiamo Zanaj were found guilty of a conspiracy to bring the Class A into the country after a five-week trial concluded last week. Lloyd-Jones, from Folkestone, and Zanaj, 33, from Ilford, were sentenced on Wednesday to 24 years and 22 years imprisonment respectively. Kizilkaya, 33, will be sentenced at a later date. The trio were caught by police having returned to Eastbourne with 350kg of cocaine on a boat used to collect their illicit haul from a cargo ship…

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