Afghan people smugglers get eight months for selling tickets for the ‘death boat’

Two Afghan boat captains who smuggled more than 70 migrants into the UK were jailed for just eight months each after a woman and a child died on the ‘dangerously overcrowded’ vessel. Shah Salim Sajjadi, 38, and Safiollah Mohammadi, 25, were arrested after the boat crossed the channel and landed on the Kent coast on 21 May. After they set sail from Calais a woman and child were pulled off the craft by a French coastal patrol vessel, but declared…