Twenty-nine Vietnamese nationals, including children, were transported across the Channel to the UK in a dirty, cramped yacht and loaded into a windowless van on a Cornish harbourside, a jury has been told. The jury at Truro crown court was told three men have admitted involvement in the transportation of 29 foreign nationals into the UK contrary to immigration law. It was driven off by Plummer and Ransom allegedly followed in a blue Audi TT, the court was told. When he was pulled over on the M5, a police officer told Ransom he was being arrested on suspicion of human trafficking. In a statement read out to the court, Newlyn fish market worker Dale Frisk said he saw the Vietnamese people jumping off the boat and heading to the waiting van.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2019 13:59 UTC