Anas Al Mustafa is accused of smuggling seven people into the UK in a van on a cross-Channel ferry.
Migrants concealed in a refrigerated van on a ferry on the English Channel were heard banging and screaming for help as they ran out of oxygen, a court has heard.
Jurors heard the crew on the ferry sailing from Dieppe to Newhaven used an axe to break down a fake partition inside the van to get the group out. Opening the case, prosecutor Nick Corsellis KC said the hidden compartment was two metres’ wide, 194cm tall and 37cm deep, which forced the migrants to stand without enough space to move to any meaningful degree.He said: “The heat created by seven people in such a small space and the lack of sufficient air/oxygen had created a highly dangerous situation.Eddie MitchellThe court heard two of the migrants had lost consciousness at the point when the group was rescued.
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