VAN DRIVER GUILTY OF SMUGGLING MIGRANTS ON FERRY
A van driver has been found guilty of smuggling seven migrants into the UK in the hidden compartment of a vehicle on a cross-Channel ferry.
The migrants were heard banging and screaming for help as they struggled to breathe in Anas Al Mustafa's van on a Dieppe-Newhaven ferry in February.
They were eventually freed when a crew member used an axe to break down a fake partition to get them out.
Al Mustafa, 43, of Heather Crescent, Swansea, was convicted of assisting unlawful entry to the UK at Lewes Crown Court.
Jurors unanimously found the father-of-two guilty of trafficking people in the specially-adapted van.
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