Jail for man who steered boat of asylum seekers across the Channel
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Updated: 10:42, 06 March 2021
An Iranian who risked his own life and those of 12 others â including a seven-year-old boy - by steering an over-crowded boat of asylum seekers across the Channel to Kent has been jailed for four years and a half years.
He is the 10th person to be jailed this year for such an offence, but received the longest sentence to date.
Jailed for four and a half years: boat steersman Fariboz Rakei
Fariboz Rakei, 49, denied a charge of assisting unlawful immigration into the UK when he appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday.