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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Kevin Rawlinson

Prosecutors target smuggled people who were forced to pilot small boats

Five people hold a banner reading ‘Free Ibrahima! Borders kill!’, each with a clenched right first held aloft.
Supporters of Ibrahima Bah protest outside Canterbury crown court in Kent. Photograph: Pol Allingham/PA

Ibrahima Bah will spend at least the next six years and three months in custody. He will do so for manslaughter, and for smuggling dozens of people into the UK on a perilous small-boat journey across the Channel during which at least four died.

In the words of the migration minister Michael Tomlinson, it was “right that he has been brought to justice” because Bah “put dozens of lives in extreme danger by taking charge of a perilous and illegal small boat crossing”.

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