London: A British court filed a truck driver Sentenced to 10 years in prison smuggling The migrants were found in a secret compartment, screaming for help from a lack of oxygen.
Anas al-Mustafa, 43, from SyriaIn August he was found guilty of facilitating illegal immigration by trafficking seven people in a purpose-built van.
Six men and one woman were found huddled in the overheated concealed space, which was described as no wider than “the width of a human chest”.
They were discovered last February when the crew on a ship traveling between Dieppe in northern France and Newhaven on the south coast of England heard cries for help inside the van.
They rescued with an axe. migrant By breaking the false partition.
When they were rescued, both men were unconscious. The court was told that none of the migrants had access to water.
Prosecutors said the young migrants had recovered from dehydration, but one of the men suffered a possible heart attack, one woman suffered acute kidney injury and another was taken to hospital in a coma and suffered a stroke.
Judge Christine Lane said: “Desperate people are prepared to risk their lives entering the UK, often with tragic consequences. “They are exploited by those who profit from this trade with little regard for their Safety.”
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Border Security and Asylum Minister Angela Eagle said the case highlighted the need to disrupt smuggling rings.
“This evil criminal risked the lives of seven people for cash and it’s a miracle they are still alive in such horrific conditions,” she said in a statement.
Immigration was a major issue in July’s general election, which brought Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor Party to power.
One of his first actions as prime minister was to scrap the previous Conservative government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda to stop ships crossing the English Channel from northern France.
Twelve people died trying to make the journey on France’s northern coast on Tuesday in the worst such disaster this year.
However, Conservative former immigration minister Robert Jenrick accused Labor of “surrendering to the smuggling gangs”.
“They got rid of one reliable deterrent, which was the Rwandan policy,” he said.
Anas al-Mustafa, 43, from SyriaIn August he was found guilty of facilitating illegal immigration by trafficking seven people in a purpose-built van.
Six men and one woman were found huddled in the overheated concealed space, which was described as no wider than “the width of a human chest”.
They were discovered last February when the crew on a ship traveling between Dieppe in northern France and Newhaven on the south coast of England heard cries for help inside the van.
They rescued with an axe. migrant By breaking the false partition.
When they were rescued, both men were unconscious. The court was told that none of the migrants had access to water.
Prosecutors said the young migrants had recovered from dehydration, but one of the men suffered a possible heart attack, one woman suffered acute kidney injury and another was taken to hospital in a coma and suffered a stroke.
Judge Christine Lane said: “Desperate people are prepared to risk their lives entering the UK, often with tragic consequences. “They are exploited by those who profit from this trade with little regard for their Safety.”
– ‘evil’ –
Border Security and Asylum Minister Angela Eagle said the case highlighted the need to disrupt smuggling rings.
“This evil criminal risked the lives of seven people for cash and it’s a miracle they are still alive in such horrific conditions,” she said in a statement.
Immigration was a major issue in July’s general election, which brought Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor Party to power.
One of his first actions as prime minister was to scrap the previous Conservative government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda to stop ships crossing the English Channel from northern France.
Twelve people died trying to make the journey on France’s northern coast on Tuesday in the worst such disaster this year.
However, Conservative former immigration minister Robert Jenrick accused Labor of “surrendering to the smuggling gangs”.
“They got rid of one reliable deterrent, which was the Rwandan policy,” he said.
