FOUR soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment have already been given custodial sentences for plotting to smuggle guns out of Iraq.
Three were also dismissed from the Army when they were jailed at a courts martial in January.
A fourth soldier was sent to a detention centre for six months.
All four soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment) had pleaded guilty to charges connected to an alleged plot to smuggle pistols out of Iraq and sell them for cash. Lance Corporal Ross Phillips was jailed for five years and eight months after admitting possession of a prohibited weapon.
Private Shane Pleasant was jailed for five years and four months for the same offence.
Lance Corporal Ben Whitfield was jailed for two years and eight months for perverting the course of justice and Private Robert Marlow was sentenced to six months detention.
