A YACHT skipper from Morecambe was today convicted of smuggling illegal immigrants into Greece.
Michael James Wood, 45, faces a ten year prison sentence when he is sentenced by the Piraeus court, possibly later today.
He was found guilty of smuggling 72 Iraqi and Syrians from Turkey to Greece.
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