Police and Border Force swoop as seven Albanian stowaways are found on board cargo ship off Dorset coast ‘Small number of unidentified individuals’ were found on board vessel yesterday Cargo ship is believed to have loaded at Rouen before arriving off Portland coast Border Force officials called in alongside local police to deal with the … Read more
Group of 11 Albanian stowaways including a pregnant woman and a 17-year-old boy are discovered on car transporter ship in Southampton docks Police were called at 11.25am today after stowaways were located in Dock Gate 4 Pregnant woman taken hospital and boy to be transferred to childcare services They were found on board Swedish-owned MV … Read more
Police rush to oil tanker off Isle of Wight after ‘stowaways attempt to hijack ship’ headed to Southampton from Nigeria Police called after ‘security incident’ on Nave Andromeda off Isle of Wight today Restriction zone of five nautical miles now in place around vessel this afternoon The ship is reportedly Libyan-registered and was set to dock … Read more
Decomposed bodies of ‘stowaways’ with enough supplies to last 72 hours found in a container three months after it was shipped from Serbia Fertiliser container left Serbia July 21 and arrived in Paraguayan capital this week Remains of seven people found inside ‘just hair and bones’, prosecutor said They had cookies, tinned food and water … Read more
An astonished couple found two illegal migrants under their van after they returned from a trip to France. Dean Darke, 60, and wife May caught the men crawling out on their driveway in Basildon, Essex, after the journey last Wednesday. The stowaways had boarded the van as it arrived at the port city of Caen, ahead … Read more
A captain and his crew pleaded guilty to attempted murder after throwing two terrified stowaways into a shark infested ocean to avoid catching coronavirus from them. Skipper Cui Rongli watched as his crew built a makeshift raft roping together sealed plastic drums and plywood then stopped his ship to dump the petrified pair overboard in … Read more