Each of the four appellants is alleged to have steered a Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boat (‘RHIB’) from France towards the United Kingdom, which was carrying migrants. There is no connection between them apart from the fact that they were all dealt with at the Canterbury Crown Court charged with an offence under the same provision. All on board each of the four RHIBs were seeking to arrive in the United Kingdom without having been given prior leave to do so. None of those in the vessels was a citizen of a member state of the European Union. Each appellant was convicted of an offence contrary to section 25 of the Immigration Act 1971
Lord Justice Edis,
Mrs Justice May,
And,
Sir Nicholas Blake
[2021] EWCA Crim 1958
Bailii, Judiciary
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 06 January 2022; Ref: scu.670719