A person has been charged with assisting unlawful entry to the UK, after migrants were found hiding in the back of a lorry at Newhaven ferry port, the Home Office has said.
After the discovery at the East Sussex port yesterday, six people were taken to hospital.
It sparked a major emergency services response, with ambulances, police and Border Force attending the scene.
Sussex Police have reported no deaths.
One person charged with assisting unlawful entry after migrants found in back of lorry rushed to hospitalPATwo men have been arrested, one was detained on suspicion of people smuggling and the other on suspicion of entering the UK illegally.
The Home Office has today confirmed one person has now been charged over the incident.
A Home Office spokesman said: “Border Force, Immigration Enforcement and emergency services continue to investigate an incident in Newhaven on Friday, February 16.
“An individual has been charged with assisting unlawful entry into the UK. While the investigation is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
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Migrants were spotted being removed from a lorry at Newhaven ferry port amid a huge police operation yesterday
John DeCottaThe lorry is understood to have arrived at Newhaven on Friday morning, after making the trip onboard the Ro-Ro ferry Seven Sisters.
The ferry makes trips from the French port of Dieppe to Newhaven daily.
Eyewitness, John DeCotta told GB News yesterday: "I have seen all the emergency service vehicles here, there must have been 30 plus.
"There were 15 ambulances that have now left. We are still in the port area with some of us off the boat but we can't go through passport control because police have sealed the whole place off.
The lorry is understood to have arrived at Newhaven on Friday morning, after making the trip onboard the Ro-Ro ferry Seven Sisters
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"Nobody has been allowed outside of the sealed area."
A statement from Sussex Police released on Friday said: "We are currently supporting Border Force, who are the leading agency, and other emergency services after a boat carrying a number of people arrived on Newhaven beach.
"A man has been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry to the UK, and a second man has been arrested for illegally entering the UK.
"The ambulance service has taken six further people to hospital for treatment."
