Irish pair charged and NI man released in people smuggling NCA probe

By Adam Kula
Published 8th Mar 2020, 12:49 BST
Updated 8th Mar 2020, 16:25 BST
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Two Irish nationals from the Dover area have been charged with conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration, whilst a Northern Irish man has been released.

Both of the Irish men were charged on Saturday morning, and were remanded in custody following a hearing at Canterbury Magistrates court.

According to an update of the situation issued on Saturday afternoon by the National Crime Agency (or NCA, the UK equivalent of the FBI), the two men charged were Wayne Sherlock, 39 and from the Eythorne area, and Eoin Nolan, 48 and from Sandwich.

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Meanwhile a 64-year-old lorry driver arrested in Belgium has been remanded in custody, and a 30-year-old man arrested in Co Antrim has been released on bail.

The 30-year-old had been questioned after attending Antrim town’s police station on Friday.

A property in the Cushendall area was also searched as part of the policing operation.

It all came after 10 migrants, thought to be from south-east Asia (and eight of them described as “juveniles” by the NCA), were discovered in a truckload of tyres in the Ghent area of Belgium on Thursday.