A man has been found guilty of smuggling seven migrants in a tiny hidden compartment of a van – which left one man suffering a "life-limiting" stroke.
Jurors unanimously found that Anas al Mustafa, 43, smuggled the six men and one woman in a specially adapted van with a hidden compartment that travelled on board a ferry between Dieppe, in France, and Newhaven, East Sussex, on 16 February.
The court heard how the crew on the Seven Sisters ship heard screaming from inside a van on deck. The crew used an axe to break down the fake partition inside hiding the people who were being starved of oxygen.
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