UK couple fined £1,500 after reporting Channel stowaway found in motorhome

After reporting the stowaway, Joanne and Adrian Fenton received an email from the Home Office saying they had failed to ‘check that no clandestine entrant was concealed in the vehicle’. Photograph: Facebook

A couple who discovered a boy hidden on the back of their motorhome after their journey from France to Essex have been fined £1,500 by the Home Office.

Adrian and Joanne Fenton called the police when they found the person zipped inside the cover of a bike rack after pulling up on their drive at their home in Heybridge.