JAMAICA: A British human trafficker was arrested in Jamaica who tried to smuggle an Afghan couple and their four-month old baby hiding them in his car boot for five hours and tried to smuggle them through Channel tunnel.
Dwight Johnson, 52, who lives in London but was born in Jamaica admitted giving the baby a sedative to silence it as he tried to pass through customs.
Johnson locked the family in his boot in Paris before driving to Coquelles, Calais, where he was stopped by border police and arrested.
A court in Boulogne, northern France, heard how Johnson had been paid £2,000 to sneak the family across the border and into Britain.
He claimed the migrants had climbed into his car a few miles from the shuttle terminal on January 11, but in reality they had clambered into the boot in the French capital.
‘You had no regard for the safety of the family, and your actions put their lives at risk,’ a magistrate told Johnson at the hearing on Friday.
