Channel crossing migrants should face prosecution if child dies – Home Secretary

The Home Secretary suggested that everyone arriving on a small boat where someone had died should face prosecution (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Everyone who arrives in the UK on a small boat where a child has died should face prosecution, the Home Secretary has said.

Yvette Cooper told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme it was “totally appalling” that children were being “crushed to death on these overcrowded boats, and yet the boat still continues to the UK”.