by Anjum Shahzada | Oct 31, 2020 | News
Two children, aged six and nine, were among four people who died when their boat sank off the coast of France. How many youngsters have made the perilous crossing this year? More than 7,400 people have stepped into small boats and navigated one of the busiest shipping...
by Anjum Shahzada | Oct 31, 2020 | News
Two Iranian men have been jailed for smuggling themselves and 29 people across the Channel on two overcrowded rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIB). Ghodratallah Donyamali Zadeh, 26, and Ahmed Nayat Quadir, 20, were both sentenced to 24 months imprisonment on Thursday....
by Anjum Shahzada | Oct 10, 2020 | News
People smugglers have cut the cost of a place on a cross-Channel dinghy by overloading them with migrants, a Home Office official has said. The rate charged by criminals to reach the UK from France has fallen by about a third as demand has soared. Steve Dann, of...
by Anjum Shahzada | Oct 3, 2020 | News
A further four boats carrying 65 migrants have been picked up in the English Channel, the Home Office said. Border Force patrols found the boats travelling towards the UK on Sunday, a day after at least 151 migrants on 15 boats arrived on the Kent coast. On Saturday...
by Anjum Shahzada | Oct 3, 2020 | News
“Multiple” migrant boats have been picked up by Border Force in the English Channel, the coastguard said. One vessel landed on a beach near to a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, Kent, police have confirmed. French authorities said they rescued 58 people...