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'Smuggling Tours Ended in Warehouse Murder' Court Told 

Jump to full article: The Scotsman (uk), 2004-01-28
Author: Geoff Meade, Europe Editor, PA News in Brussels

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A man accused of attempted murder and robbery at a tobacco warehouse in Luxembourg organised smuggling tours to the Grand Duchy to bring cheap cigarettes back to the UK, a court was told today.

Keith Birkinshaw, 50, used a series of couriers to bring back the hauls, judges in Luxembourg heard.

But a visit in November 2000 to wholesale cigarette warehouse La Tabathaque with his son Edward and a friend, Glenn Dawson, ended in murder, it was claimed.

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