Almost 30 'illegal immigrants' found in refrigerated lorry at motorway service station

A refrigerated lorry which stopped at a motorway service station had been carrying 27 suspected illegal immigrants.
Police were alerted when people at Cobham services on the M25 in Surrey became suspicious about activity around the truck.
Trucker Sean Ingham, 48, stopped off at the services en route to Kent from Manchester when he came across the crowd gathered outside an Italian-registered refrigerated trailer.
He said: “I drove into the services needing a break and I saw what I thought was a demonstration in the car park.
“As I looked closer, there were lots of police, three or four motorway police vehicles and dog vans, and two or three Transits.

Desperate: A woman holds a child's hand as a group of migrants walk on railway tracks

“The people all had sleeping bags round them or had big coats with them. It looked like they had come from a trailer that had Italian number plates.

Fleeing: A migrant climbs over a fence into the Channel Tunnel site in Frethun, northern France

“Just as I was about to leave immigration officers arrived, and they were taking down their names and taking their photographs, and then putting them into police vans.”
Those who had been inside the Italian-registered vehicle and the driver were arrested.
In Folkestone, Kent, six people were found clinging to the underside of a lorry which had just arrived from France on a Eurotunnel train.
Shocked drivers saw the men as they were being detained by officers.