Van driver who smuggled migrants found screaming for help jailed for 10 years in Britain

The discovery at the East Sussex port sparked a major emergency services response, with ambulances, police and Border Force in attendance.

The van driven by Anas Al Mustafa, which was used to smuggle migrants in a hidden compartment while he was driving between Dieppe, in France, and Newhaven, in East Sussex, on February 16. Picture: Crown Prosecution Service/PA Wire

A van driver has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for smuggling migrants in a hidden compartment who were discovered screaming for help as they were starved of oxygen.

Anas Al Mustafa, 43, was convicted of assisting unlawful migration by trafficking the seven people in a specially-adapted van via a ferry between Dieppe, in France, and Newhaven, East Sussex, on February 16.