Ukrainian people smugglers jailed for leaky yacht plot

Three Ukrainian illegal immigrants who smuggled 19 of their fellow countrymen into the UK in a leaky yacht were jailed for a total of seven years and three months. Evhenii Vasilikov, 31, hired an eight-man vessel named Flamingo to carry the refugees from Holland to a beach in Southwold, Suffolk. His accomplices Mykhailo Roik, 27, and Yuri Dzhuraniuk, 27, picked up the immigrants in two cars before being stopped by Border Force officials on 15 October last year. Vasilikov, who…