Asylum seeker gets 25 years for people smuggling and shouts: ‘This is unfair’

A people smuggling boss who made £12.3m flooding Europe with thousands of migrants while on state benefits moaned ‘this is unfair’ as he was jailed for 25 years. Egyptian asylum seeker Ahmed Ebid, 42, organised ‘death trap’ boat crossings across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy between 3 October 2022 and 21 July 2023. The former fisherman, who came to the UK on a small boat, was working with people smuggling networks in north Africa to organise boats to bring…