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Hundreds of messages from Ujeza Kurmekaj's phone found the Albanian fixer helped get migrants - including teenagers as young as 14 - across the Channel in small boats.
An Albanian people smuggler has been jailed for seven and a half years for her role in helping migrants cross the English Channel in small boats.
Ujeza Kumekaj, 32, orchestrated the small boat crossings from France for Albanians before her arrest at her home in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
An Albanian woman has been jailed for seven and a half years for acting as a fixer for people smugglers who transported migrants across the English Channel.
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