People smugglers used Albanian ‘travel agents’

A gang of human traffickers charged Albanian illegal immigrants £5,500 to be smuggled across the Channel in inflatable boats, a court heard today (fri). Leonard Powell, 66, and his son Alfie, 39, ferried non-EU migrants into the UK between 1 April and 14 August 2016, it is alleged. The Powells used the car park of a pub near their home in Farningham, north London to meet with their crew before each ‘migrant run’, with the help of Albanian co-ordinaters and…