‘Officials stole cash from small boat migrants at Dover’

Five immigration officers stole cash from small boat migrants as they arrived at Dover port, a court heard. 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 2022. Albanian Matera is also charged with entering the UK illegally…