ASYLUM SEEKER SMUGGLED 3000 MIGRANTS INTO THE UK

A failed Iraqi asylum seeker who smuggled up to 3,000 migrants into the UK has been convicted of the offence in Belgium, a court heard today (weds). Basak Ahmed Sleman, 33, is facing up to ten years jail after he was found guilty of being part of a Kurdish criminal network that smuggled people into the UK in the back of trucks. His accomplice Shamal Zorab, 37, faces 12 years in prison for collecting fees from the ‘vulnerable and endangered’…