A lesbian mother changed her name and packed homemade banana bread before crossing the Channel in a dinghy to smuggle her children into Britain. Yesterday a court was told the family spent two years plotting their journey to the UK after identifying the Channel island as a stepping stone. Miss Etchells' parents even made a three-day trip to Jersey to research potential landing spots and observe bus routes and tide patterns. Mr Etchells told Jersey Magistrate's Court how he later plotted the information he found in a spreadsheet. They also had the children fitted for life jackets and took a Garmin GPS device, worn around Miss Etchells's neck.

Source: Daily Mail December 07, 2019 13:51 UTC