It was a floating death-trap and, at 42ft, longer than a double-decker bus. The mammoth inflatable vessel – likely to have been cobbled together in a backstreet workshop in China – carried a scarcely believable 165 migrants towards Britain’s shores.
When shocking images of this ‘mega dinghy’ on the water emerged last week, it was a chilling indicator of the utter contempt people traffickers show for human life.
And for the Labour Government, these giant galleys are a stark testament to the insoluble problem of Channel ‘small boats’.
Last Thursday’s extraordinary scenes led to a teenager who allegedly piloted the record-breaking dinghy appearing
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