Immigration officers ‘stole hundreds of thousands of pounds from migrants’

Five immigration officers accused of stealing ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’ from small boat migrants as they arrived at Dover port must wait nearly two years for their trial. Besmir Matera, 36, Jack Mitchell, 33, Lee-Ann Evanson, 42, John Bernthal, 53, and Ben Edwardes, 45, were charged with conspiracy to steal after a probe was launched by Home Office anti-corruption investigators. A sixth officer, David Grundy, 43, is charged alongside them with money laundering offences between August 2021 and November…