Immigrants found in lorry on road at London Gateway Logistics Park
A LORRY driver has been arrested after four men and a teenage boy were discovered in a lorry trailer near London Gateway port last night.
Police and the ambulance service attended.
A statement from the police says: "We were contacted shortly before 4.30pm on Tuesday, 13 October with reports that people could be heard inside a lorry trailer on Ocean Boulevard, Stanford-le-Hope.
"Officers arrived and found four men and a teenage boy inside the trailer.
"The lorry driver, a 26-year-old man, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration.
"He remains in police custody."
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