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 ·  Posted: 10.03.2025  ·  #1
A couple who discovered a migrant had clung to the back of their vehicle all the way home from France have been issued a £1,500 fine.

Adrian and Joanne Fenton said they called police when they found the person zipped inside the cover of a bike rack at their home in Heybridge, Essex, in October.

They later received a fine from the Home Office.

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 ·  Posted: 10.03.2025  ·  #2
Good old border farce.....
Open borders to illegals, but hammer folk who pay taxes and contribute to society. It hacks me right off waiting in a queue and getting the evil eye at passport control enterering the uk whilst our borders are an open door...
Hopefully, the victims will take legal advice, but I don't hold much hope for them, the government is a money grabbing monster these days.
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 ·  Posted: 10.03.2025  ·  #3
the border with Bosnia and herz was quite bad there during the summer , you will see random checkpoints outside border towns ,we were searched leaving villages,and the other side leaving Bulgaria searched,but the Serbia border was by far the worst, illegal migrants running through fields, people getting outa cars getting told to walk back into Croatia, it was mad , but as always it’s the law breaker’s that get penalised, and a criminal record
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 ·  Posted: 10.03.2025  ·  #4
"They later received a fine from the Home Office for failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed in the motorhome. "
Has the same fine been issued to the border control and custom officials for their failure to do the same check.🤔
Was the scanning equipment on the same teabreak?
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 ·  Posted: 18.03.2025  ·  #6
The woman who was fined said they may get their vehicle seized if they don’t pay
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 ·  Posted: 19.03.2025  ·  #7
I read an article somewhere yesterday that the fine was overturned.
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 ·  Posted: 19.03.2025  ·  #8
Quote by presstout1

I read an article somewhere yesterday that the fine was overturned.


Think it was the other coupe with the1. 5k fine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyr0gl299ro
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