Driver helped Asians into UK
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• An Essex truck driver has been jailed for helping to smuggle 14 illegal immigrants into the Derek Baker, of Basildon, was jailed for 27 months after Canterbury Crown Court heard that he had brought the Pakistani and Afghan immigrants through Dover hidden in his truck. Cab driver Sheikh AU was then to have ferried them to a temple in Southall, west London.
But police pounced on them in a layby near Purfleet after Ali arrived in a car. Baker, who works for Kent haulage company Dutchline, said he had been approached in France and offered £300 for each immigrant he brought into the country. He said he did it because his son and daughter-in-law urgently needed £10,000.
Judge John Sessions told Baker that if it had not been for matters advanced on his behalf" he would have been jailed for four years. Baker and Ali were told they would serve half of their sentences.