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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

Couple who found migrant hiding in campervan have £1,500 fine cancelled

A couple who were fined after they reported finding a migrant on the bike rack of their motorhome have had their penalty cancelled.

The Home Office had ordered Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge in Essex, to pay £1,500 for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” in the vehicle as they crossed the English Channel, the BBC reported.

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