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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Convictions quashed for asylum seekers wrongly jailed for steering dinghies across Channel

PA

Seven asylum seekers who were wrongly jailed for steering dinghies across the English Channel have had their convictions quashed.

Court of Appeal judges threw the convictions out on Tuesday because of the same “error of law” that saw five other cases overturned last year.

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