InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/05/25
An Iranian asylum seeker has been cleared of smuggling charges in the UK after spending 17 months in prison. Fouad Kakaei had helped to steer a boat across the English Channel.
An Iranian asylum seeker, Fouad Kakaei, has won his case in the UK Court of Appeal after spending 17 months in prison. In December 2019, Kakaei was rescued by UK Border Force officials while crossing the English Channel. This year in the Canterbury Crown Court he admitted to having taken a turn steering the boat because he didn’t want to die at sea and was sentenced to two years and two months in prison.
Man accused of child sex offences in Nottinghamshire caught in back of lorry at Dover port
The lorry driver has been jailed for six years for trying to smuggle nine migrants out of the country
Updated (Image: NCA/PA)
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A man under investigation for child sexual offences in Nottinghamshire was found in the back of a lorry trying to smuggle him out of the country.
Sebastian Gabriel Podar (pictured), 48, was booked on a ferry to France when he was stopped at the port of Dover in the early hours of Wednesday, 2 December last year
A lorry driver who tried to smuggle a suspected paedophile and others out of the UK has been jailed.
Sebastian Gabriel Podar, 48, was booked on a ferry to France when he was stopped at the port of Dover in the early hours of Wednesday, 2 December last year.
Nine people were discovered hiding in the back of his HGV, including a 39-year-old Bangladeshi man who was under investigation for child sexual offences by police in Nottinghamshire and has since been charged with 20 offences.
By Press Association 2021
A group of migrants found in the vehicle of Romanian lorry driver Sebastian Gabriel Podar (NCA/PA)
A lorry driver who tried to smuggle migrants out of the UK, including an alleged child sex offender, has been jailed for six years.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Sebastian Gabriel Podar, 48, was arrested at the port of Dover on December 2 last year as part of its long-running Operation Symbolry.
His vehicle was being monitored by officers’ investigating an organised crime group alleged to be behind the smuggling of hundreds of migrants in and out of the UK in lorries.
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