People smuggling gangs offer a ‘Christmas discount’ of £300 a head to migrants wanting to cross the English Channel to Britain illegally The UK Border Force prepares for a surge in crossings over the festive period Intelligence reports suggest average costs for migrants around £500 to £1,000 Means illegal crossings now available for less than … Read more
People smuggling gangs offer a ‘Christmas discount’ of £300 a head to migrants wanting to cross the English Channel to Britain illegally The UK Border Force prepares for a surge in crossings over the festive period Intelligence reports suggest average costs for migrants around £500 to £1,000 Means illegal crossings now available for less than … Read more
A lorry driver accused of being a member of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants has told jurors he only agreed to move cigarettes ‘for a bit of extra cash’. Christopher Kennedy, 24, of Keady, County Armagh, allegedly picked up two trailer-loads of people from Purfleet in Essex, transported from Zeebrugge in … Read more
Two migrants have been jailed for smuggling themselves and a total of 23 people across the Channel into the UK on board two dangerously overcrowded rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBs). Iraqi national Assad Abdul Latif Sayed Abdulghany, 30, was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. He arrived in the UK after smuggling himself and 16 other people, … Read more
‘How come a court proved you guilty?’ Schapelle Corby is reduced to tears in a trailer for SAS Australia as she’s interrogated about her drug smuggling past By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:43 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 02:15 BST, 5 October 2020 Schapelle Corby’s reality TV debut won’t be a … Read more
Three Britons have been arrested after a Europe-wide probe into people trafficking busted a gang of 12 people suspected of transporting migrants across the Channel. Two men and a woman aged between 33 and 40 were held in London on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration. Two others were held in Calais and seven in Holland. … Read more
You’re KNICKERED! Prison guard, 27, is locked up for three years after smuggling cocaine and cannabis into jail in her underwear Hannah Gaves formerly worked as a prison guard at Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire She today pleaded guilty at Salisbury Crown Court to a string of drug offences Gaves has also been ordered to pay … Read more
You’re KNICKERED! Prison guard, 27, is locked up for three years after smuggling cocaine and cannabis into jail in her underwear Hannah Gaves formerly worked as a prison guard at Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire She today pleaded guilty at Salisbury Crown Court to a string of drug offences Gaves has also been ordered to pay … Read more
A multi-million-pound cross-Channel smuggling racket is being masterminded by a UK-based criminal known as ‘The Banker’. Details of the shadowy Godfather figure emerged during the French trial of a gang of Afghans who smuggled migrants into Britain on small boats and in the back of lorries. The revelation comes as new analysis showed more than … Read more
A 76-year-old American senior citizen, who was jailed in Spain for smuggling 5lbs of cocaine became an unwitting drugs mule after suffering a brain injury, the US said. Victor Stemberger, from Virginia, is in a Spanish jail a year after flying into the country with cocaine expertly sewn into bubble jackets in a bag. The … Read more