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12/08/2015
Five Arrested After Being Spotted Jumping From Refrigerated Lorry
Five people remain in police custody, arrested on suspicion of entering the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry.
A sixth suspect is in hospital having suffered two broken ankles.
West Midlands Police were alerted at around 15:15 on Tuesday by an emergency call from a member of the public reporting people jumping from the back of a truck in Brockhurst Crescent near the M6 at junction 8.
Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) arrested three people at the scene along with the 36-year-old Romanian driver – a subsequent search revealed another three people hiding nearby.
CMPG Inspector Greg Jennings, said: "We are working with colleagues from the UK Border Agency who will now manage and conduct a thorough investigation into the incident."
Two of the men arrested are believed to be Iranian, another is understood to be a 23-year-old Syrian, while two others males have told officers they are from Vietnam and aged in their mid-teens.
Police are this morning arranging for interpreters and an age assessor to speak to the detainees, while the driver will be questioned on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry to the UK.
Another man, believed to be aged 32, is in hospital having been found by officers with two broken ankles.
(MH/JP)
A sixth suspect is in hospital having suffered two broken ankles.
West Midlands Police were alerted at around 15:15 on Tuesday by an emergency call from a member of the public reporting people jumping from the back of a truck in Brockhurst Crescent near the M6 at junction 8.
Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) arrested three people at the scene along with the 36-year-old Romanian driver – a subsequent search revealed another three people hiding nearby.
CMPG Inspector Greg Jennings, said: "We are working with colleagues from the UK Border Agency who will now manage and conduct a thorough investigation into the incident."
Two of the men arrested are believed to be Iranian, another is understood to be a 23-year-old Syrian, while two others males have told officers they are from Vietnam and aged in their mid-teens.
Police are this morning arranging for interpreters and an age assessor to speak to the detainees, while the driver will be questioned on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry to the UK.
Another man, believed to be aged 32, is in hospital having been found by officers with two broken ankles.
(MH/JP)
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