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More than 200 migrants picked up in the Channel as Patel pushes for harsher sentences in bid to stop asylum shopping
More than 200 migrants picked up in the Channel as Patel pushes for harsher sentences in bid to stop asylum shopping More than 200 migrants have been intercepted by Border Force officials while trying to cross the Channel on Sunday.
UK authorities intercepted six attempted crossings involving 212 people, the Home Office said, adding that French authorities reported seven interceptions, preventing 238 people from reaching the UK.
Photos appeared to show people on RNLI boats landing in Dover,
Kent.
Nearly 6,000 people have reached the UK in the first six months of the year, according to analysis by the Press Association, with last year s record-breaking number of 8,417 set to be eclipsed if the crossings remain at their current rate.
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6 Mar 2021
Iranian military veteran Fariboz Rakei has received a short prison sentence for leading a boatload of migrants, including a seven-year-old child, on a perilous journey across the English Channel.
The 49-year-old is one of ten people who have been convicted for offences related to people-smuggling migrants in the Channel so far this year, and has received the longest sentence yet of just four-and-a-half years.
This is despite the fact he is a so-called “boomerang migrant”, having already been deported from Britain to Germany as recently as 2019 following a previous illegal channel crossing, according to KentOnline.
Criminals in Britain who receive non-“life” sentences are almost always automatically released early on licence halfway or, more rarely, two-thirds of the way through their terms, too, so the headline figure of four-and-a-half years is not likely to reflect the amount of time he Rakei will actually serve in prison.
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image captionSadrallah Bahador, from Iran, was spotted on a boat with 14 other people
An Iranian man who steered a group of migrants across the English Channel in a dangerously overcrowded small boat has been jailed for two years.
Sadrallah Bahador, 35, was picked up by a Border Force vessel from a rigid-hulled inflatable boat in July.
Bahador admitted assisting unlawful immigration at Canterbury Crown Court and was sentenced at the same hearing.
The 15 occupants of the boat were seen bailing water out as it crossed the Channel in rough seas.
Aerial footage showed Bahador steering the boat, the Home Office said.