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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Adam Everett

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Faces of men who smuggled stowaways into uk in their car boots | History Defined

These are the faces of two men who illegally smuggled Vietnamese nationals into the country in their car boots.

James Liddiard and David Finn were among six Merseyside-based people traffickers caught attempting to transport stowaways into the UK from France within the space of a week. The former did so with his mum in the passenger seat under the guise of a day trip to Paris.

Canterbury Crown Court heard on Tuesday that the smugglers "worked in pairs", with the first such illicit journey being detected on December 9 2018. On this occasion, two hidden Vietnamese passengers were discovered in the boot of a car being driven by Charli White, with then 17-year-old companion Erin Burns "acting as a decoy" next to her in the front.

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