People traffickers ‘are paying French fishing boat crews to get migrants across the English Channel’

People traffickers are hiring French fishing boat crews to carry desperate migrants halfway across the Channel in a bid to evade eye-in-the-sky military drones. Once in open water, asylum seekers clamber into pre-inflated dinghies held in the fishing boat to complete the rest of the perilous 21-mile crossing, reports suggest.  Using fishing trips as a guise … Read more

‘Shocking’ footage reveals moment traffic sergeant tracks gang of potential human traffickers

Shocking footage reveals moment traffic sergeant and his team track a gang of potential human traffickers in Cops on Call – after reports that 30 people were seen getting off a boat and into the back of a van Traffic sergeant and team track gang of potential human traffickers in real time Comes after member … Read more

‘Boat mafia’ of traffickers sets up base in Brussels to smuggle migrants across the Channel 

Ruthless traffickers have set up a base in Belgium to smuggle migrants across the Channel. The Daily Mail has established that organised crime networks calling themselves the ‘boat mafia’ have moved in to Brussels to profit from a huge rise in migrants.  Some 1,000 arrivals are using the city as an alternative staging post to … Read more

Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers: Former marine horrified after finding three cubs in freezer

A former Royal Marines Commando was horrified after discovering three dead tiger cubs in a freezer at an illegal breeding facility in South East Asia.  Scottish former soldier Aldo Kane, 42, visits Laos for documentary Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers, which airs tonight at 9pm, as he explores the tiger trade in South East Asia.  He is left disgusted … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS TV reviews: The Trouble With Maggie Cole and Tigers: Hunting The Traffickers 

The Trouble With Maggie Cole (ITV)  Rating: Tigers: Hunting The Traffickers (BBC2)  Rating: Have you heard the latest? Look, I’m not saying this is true, but I think it probably is… I believe it anyway. You know that one from the boy band, the one who always looked dodgy and apparently has a real drink … Read more