‘Pensioners headed people smuggling gang’

A gang of elderly people smugglers were paid more than £5,000 a head to bring a lorry load of illegal immigrants into UK, a court heard. The truck was intercepted in Southall with Afghan and Sikh migrants in the back on September 7, 2019 after an undercover operation by the National Crime agency. Four days later the gang members were paid £64,000 in cash for organising the run, it is claimed. Mark Youell, 68, Martin Babbage, also 68, Paul Lane,…