The small boats, which can carry more than 50 people, were seen travelling into British waters during an unusually calm winter s day on the English Channel.
Hikmatan, who studied in Afghanistan, said he had been waiting a month to make the crossing and that government policies and fatalities would not change his plans.
A man and woman are confirmed to have died after several people fell into the English Channel off the coast of Calais, with a Dungeness RNLI lifeboat sent out
Officers watched them leave from a beach on the coast of Northern France on Wednesday morning, and within two hours the massively overcrowded craft capsized.(Stock Image)