2 hours ago Convicted radical smuggler Twana Jamal, erstwhile described arsenic "the godfather" of the French migrant camps, is surviving and moving successful Leicestershire, and believed to beryllium seeking asylum, a BBC probe tin reveal.
Jamal was fixed a five-year jailhouse condemnation successful France successful 2016. Following a tip-off this year, the BBC traced Jamal to Blaby successful Leicestershire, wherever we witnessed him moving illegally, driving a car without a licence and seemingly utilizing a mendacious name.
We person besides been told by instrumentality enforcement officials successful mainland Europe that 15 different convicted radical smugglers are present surviving successful the UK nether mendacious names, raising superior concerns astir whether existing borderline controls are effectual successful checking asylum seekers who person committed superior crimes overseas.
The Home Office told the BBC: "All asylum claimants are taxable to mandatory information checks to corroborate their individuality for the intent of immigration, information and criminality checks", and that the UK has "a fig of agreements with countries which alteration the sharing of transgression grounds information", adding that migration enforcement enactment is presently astatine its highest level successful history.
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