The boat was intercepted by UK authorities
Four men have been jailed for trying to smuggle 69 people, including two pregnant women, into the UK on a converted fishing boat.
But the crew caught the attention of authorities, first off the coast of Sweden where the boat ran aground and later in the UK where it was intercepted with 69 Albanian migrants on board. He described conditions on board as “terrifying”, adding that organisers had “plainly rounded up migrants and insisted they board in Ostend – weapons it seems were produced by some of the organisers”.“Your aim was gain and profit, you cared little for safety and welfare.”
Ms Sumnall said the venture was “far more sophisticated than small boat crossings, dinghies and the like” and that criminals were “using the squalid and dangerous conditions on board the Svanic to line their own pockets”.
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