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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Al-Othman

Essex couple’s £1,500 fine for reporting Channel stowaway is cancelled

Joanne and Adrian Fenton
Joanne and Adrian Fenton were fined for ‘failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed’. Photograph: Facebook

A couple who were fined £1,500 after reporting a boy who had stowed away on the back of their motorhome for their journey from France to Essex have had the penalty cancelled.

Adrian and Joanne Fenton from Heybridge were fined by the Home Office for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” when they returned to their home across the Channel.

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