Illegals caught in back of HGV

Migrants believed to have stowed away in Calais were discovered in a lorry in Folkestone.

Ten people were found in the back of an HGV in a lorry park near the harbour at about 4.30pm last Wednesday.

Firefighters helped them from their hiding place on top of goods in the trailer and the police, who said they were all “fine”, took them to the Dover Immigration Centre.

Delays caused by striking French ferry workers offered desperate migrants the opportunity to climb aboard lorries bound for the UK as hundreds of vehicles waited in queues around the port.

The Home Office says 19,000 attempts to illegally enter the UK have been thwarted in 2015, more than double the same period last year.

Prime Minister David Cameron announced last Wednesday, that the government is considering providing further investment and resources for the border at Calais after the day before saw French strikers burning tyres, illegal immigrants breaking into lorries, and truckers complaining of French police failing to act to stop them.

But Philippe Mignonet, a deputy to the mayor of Calais, said French people were also “fed up” adding Britain needed to “take responsibility” for policing its borders, adding: “You’re on an island and you can’t see that it’s your problem to deal with your security.”

Picture: Kent 999s Migrants discovered in Folkestone