A couple who discovered a boy hidden on the back of their motorhome after their journey from France to Essex have been fined £1,500 by the Home Office.
Adrian and Joanne Fenton called the police when they found the person zipped inside the cover of a bike rack after pulling up on their drive at their home in Heybridge.
The couple had been travelling in France with friends and returned to the UK by ferry on 15 October.
Because if you really did, what would you do differently?
Joanne Fenton, 55, said border officials in Calais and the UK had not inspected the bike rack or the cover before or after the crossing.
The Home Office said penalties were “designed to target negligence rather than criminality”.
Clearly, not the negligence of the BF staff, who have the duty to deter these people, not a duty that should ever be laid on the innocent holidaymaker.
This is not the first such case, either:
In October, a retired ambulance driver and his wife were fined £6,000 after UK Border Agency staff found a man in a trailer attached to their mobile home in France. Peter Hughes and Anne Lawton, from Droylsden, Greater Manchester, told the BBC they had no idea a young Sudanese man had concealed himself.
The government has shifted the duty to deter illegals to you, the public.
5 comments:
We must assume, since there is a clear incentive to let them free, this is the actual objective of our elites
Then it's clear we should just let them go (Maybe, if you're capeable, after giving them a few digs).
I assume nothing happened to the illegal themselves?
How is that going to work out once word gets around that you are the one that gets fined? Obviously anyone who finds a stowaway is going to send him on his way and not report it.
Stonyground.
There is a 3rd option which does not involve the police and the illegal migrant will not walk away to claim benefits, free driving schools, healthcare, iphones, etc. It all depends how open their driveway was for neighbours to see.
Are the RNLI not breaking the law, then?
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