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Immigrants found in lorry on road at London Gateway Logistics Park

Local News by Neil Speight 14th Oct 2020  
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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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