Essex News & Investigations

A LORRY driver previously convicted in France for trying to smuggle migrants into the UK has been sentenced following a cocaine seizure...

A Romanian man who was wanted by the National Crime Agency (NCA) after failing to show up at court has been arrested and extradited back...

SUELLA Braverman was Home Secretary this morning as she watched as an Albanian woman, believed to be responsible for helping transport...

FIVE taxi drivers from East London have appeared in court charged with people smuggling offences. It follows an investigation by the...

AN ALBANIAN man has agreed to be extradited to Belgium to face charges in connection with immigration and criminal organisation offences....

DETECTIVES who continue to investigate the tragic deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals in Essex in October 2019 are working alongside...

National Crime Agency officers have targeted members of a major criminal network suspected of involvement in the smuggling of up to...

A PEOPLE smuggling ring believed to have got about 10,000 people to the UK across the English Channel suffered a series of arrests across...

ASYLUM seekers have launched legal action against the Home Office amid claims taxpayer-funded full-board hotels and other accommodation...

A man suspected of being the leading figure in an organised crime group supplying significant numbers of small boats to people smugglers...