Gang jailed for trying to smuggle girl, aged three

A three-year-old girl was hidden in the boot of a car with two adults as a gang tried to smuggle Albanian nationals into the UK.

Six people have been jailed for their role in what Judge Simon James described as “a professionally organised criminal organisation” set up to profit from human trafficking.

The judge handed down sentences ranging from 20 months to five-and-ahalf years at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday.

The car had been stopped at the UK Control Zone in Coquelles, France.