Background to Channel tragedy

Following the article on the 127 unknown bodies (July 2), I can give the following additional information regarding the body in the wet/dry suit landed at Dover in 1992.

The body was sighted by the lookout on the Stena ferry the Stena Challenger as the vessel was approaching Dover on its passage from Dunkirk West, in a position approximately four miles from Dover Harbour’s Eastern Entrance. Because dusk was falling and the difficulty of