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.
Alexandru-Dorinel Fuiorea, 29, was stopped by police and the National Crime Agency at the Medway Services in Gillingham, Kent
A Romanian man who was caught trying to smuggle 17 migrants out of the UK in the back of a lorry has been jailed for three years.
Alexandru-Dorinel Fuiorea, 29, was stopped by police and the National Crime Agency at the Medway Services in Gillingham, Kent, as he travelled on the M20 last October.
Inside his trailer - which could only be opened from the inside - authorities found 16 men and one woman of Indian, Pakistani, Tunisian, Moroccan, Bangladeshi and Afghani nationalities.
Fuiorea had made no attempt to hide the migrants and there was no legal cargo onboard the lorry, Maidstone Crown Court heard today.
Man caught with indecent images of children avoids prison due to court delays
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Updated: 16:56, 16 January 2021
A man hoarding âunspeakableâ images of children being sexually abused escaped prison following âoutrageous negligenceâ in the justice system.
Graham Schofield, 63, from Herne Bay, was caught with 122 of the worst kinds of photographs in 2015, but it took five years to get him to court.
Graham Schofield was spared a more serious punishment because of the delays
When police levelled excuses to an angry Judge Rupert Lowe for the unacceptable delay, he dismissed them as âjust platitudesâ.
Judge Lowe told prosecutors it was âimpossible to do justiceâ five years after an offence, claiming the whole system âis not working.â