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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris and agency

British soldiers jailed for selling cocaine worth nearly £100,000 to comrades

Claudius Scott.
Rifleman Claudius Scott was jailed for four years and one month as the ‘initiator and leader’ of the group. Photograph: Andrew Croft/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News

A group of British soldiers have been jailed after a court heard they sold almost £100,000 worth of cocaine to fellow military personnel and bought designer products with the proceeds.

A kilo of the drug was sourced in west London and sold by the four members of 5th Battalion, the Rifles, at Bulford camp in Wiltshire over a near three-year period, the court heard on Thursday.

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