A man thought to be a Sudanese migrant attempted to steal a fishing boat and take it to France to ‘collect his family’.
The 30-year-old man boarded the shellfish trawler in the early hours of today while the crew were asleep in their bunks – and tried to take it out to sea.
He started the engine and revved it so hard that the mooring ropes snapped, according to one of the trawlermen.
The man was ‘insisting’ they take him to France to ‘collect his family’, he added.
The immigration status of the arrested man remains unclear. The Home Office has been approached for
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