‘Immigration Air’ fixers laugh off light sentences

Two ‘fixers’ for a people smuggling ring that flew Albanians into the UK in a light aircraft have been jailed for a total of over five years. Former Italian restaurant owner Myrteza Hilaj, 50, who came to the UK in the 1990s, acted as a travel agent and ‘go-to man’ for fellow countrymen desperate to get into the country. Hilaj was the licencee of the Dolce Vita bar and restaurant in Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, when a man was killed…