Head of smuggling gang was aslyum seeker given British citizenship

The head of a human trafficking gang which brought hundreds of people into the UK illegally is facing up to 10 years jail in France after a judge ordered his extradition. British-Iraqi Rekawt Kayani, 34, recruited lorry drivers from Poland, Russia, and Lithuania to smuggle migrants from Dieppe to Newhaven ferry port East Sussex. Kayani is said to have headed an Iraqi-Kurd network based in the notorious Grande Synthe migrant camp in Dunkirk. Judge Vanessa Baraitser ordered his extradition to…