Barry Doughty, 57, has been jailed after breaking out of prison in 1999 and fleeing to Europe before returning to the UK in 2017 and running an illegal steroids empire from his Dover home.
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.
Illegal migrants ‘smuggled out of UK to avoid deportation and then back again’
Court told of elaborate scams to defeat immigration rules as Romanian trafficker is jailed after being caught with 17 people in his lorry
30 April 2021 • 6:52pm
A truck driver from Luton has been jailed for trying to smuggle a group of migrants out of the UK
Credit: National Crime Agency
Illegal migrants are being smuggled out of the UK to avoid deportation or prosecution in the UK, it emerged yesterday, as a Romanian trafficker was jailed for three years and eight months.
Alexandru-Dorinel Fuiorea was stopped by police and the National Crime Agency in Gillingham, Kent, as he tried to smuggle 17 illegal migrants out of the UK in the back of a lorry.