An antiques dealer and her husband have been fined £3,000 after they called police to report a migrant who had snuck into their vehicle at the French border.
Ed Masters discovered the young man when he returned to the UK after borrowing a van to assist his wife, Jane Cave, on a trip to buy antiques.
Despite calling Suffolk Constabulary himself, Mr Masters was told he was responsible for failing to properly secure his vehicle.
Ms Cave, an antiques dealer who features on BBC’s The Bidding Room, and her husband said they had been held up in lengthy delays at Calais caused by post-Brexit customs regulations when returning home on Nov 23 last year.
Mr Masters had been completing the necessary paperwork inside his van, which was unlocked, when he heard a noise and spotted a man attempting to climb in the back of the vehicle.
“I shouted, ‘Get out,’ which he duly did and ambled towards the rest of the car park,” Mr Masters said.
He and his wife then got back in the van and continued their journey towards customs.
My biggest fear is that a terrorist group would smuggle a bomb and detonate it in the chunnel, killing many and causing millions of pounds of damage because then, the blow-back against innocent migrants would be absolutely terrible.