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Joshua Hayes, 34, was among 12 members imprisoned after police found three guns wrapped in a tea-towel inside a gap between two walls in a Merseyside flat.

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In order to create a longer-lasting government, Lecornu pledged Saturday to work with all the mainstream political movements and that he would select cabinet members who are not "imprisoned by the parties."

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"Instead, they send him halfway across the world to a country he's never been to, where he has no ties, imprison him with no charges and don't tell his family anything," she said.

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Professional cyclists can be tetchy creatures, imprisoned by routine.

But previous takedowns haven’t seemed to affect the gang’s imprisoned leaders, or prevented them from calling shots on contraband phones.

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