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Wednesday, 9 October, 2002, 11:24 GMT 12:24 UK
Bird smuggler has sentence cut
Smuggling can push endangered species to extinction.
A student from Derby who smuggled endangered wild birds worth £25,000 into Britain has had his prison sentence reduced.
Peora Jungthirapanica, 24, of Ashbourne Road, was jailed for 22 months in January this year. London's Criminal Appeal Court ruled on Tuesday that Jungthirapanica's sentence was "manifestly excessive" and cut it to 15 months. The court accepted he had been under the influence of an accomplice at the time. Commercial motivation Jungthirapanica of Ashbourne Road had been studying at St Andrew's University in Edinburgh at the time of the offence. He pleaded guilty to smuggling 23 birds into the UK from Thailand in July 2000. Also found guilty was Raymond Humphrey of Tilney All Saints in Norfolk who was jailed for six and a half years for that offence and other bird and animal crimes. The court ruled Jungthirapanica was under the influence of Humphrey and did not share the same commercial motivation.
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