English Channel: Three men jailed for attempted people smuggling
Three people smugglers who made several failed attempts to transport Vietnamese migrants across the English Channel in boats that kept breaking down have been jailed.
The mastermind of the operation, 57-year-old Freddy Lawrence from Woodfield Close, Folkestone, was found guilty in November of conspiring to assist unlawful immigration and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail on Friday.
Keith Baigent, 63, from Dover Road, Folkestone, and Paul Giglia, 64, from Cheriton, Kent, were sentenced to three years and nine months and three years and four months respectively.
Investigators said it was an “amateurish criminal enterprise” aimed at smuggling vulnerable migrants into the UK using “ramshackle vessels”.
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