British soldier cleared of aiding illegal immigration in France

A British former soldier who tried to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father’s request has been cleared of all charges related to aiding illegal immigration.

British soldier cleared of aiding illegal immigration in France

A French court gave 49-year-old Rob Lawrie only a suspended €1,000 fine on a charge of putting the child’s life in danger — by transporting her in a storage compartment of his van rather than on a child seat with a seatbelt.

Lawrie, an unemployed father of four, had befriended the girl and her father in a squalid migrant camp in northern France.

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