Essex couples 1,500 fine for reporting Channel stowaway is cancelled

A couple who were fined £1,500 after reporting a boy who had stowed away on the back of their motorhome for their journey from France to Essex have had the penalty cancelled. Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge, were fined by the Home Office for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” when they returned to their home across the Channel. The stowaway had concealed himself in the bicycle rack on the outside of their vehicle as they made the six-hour journey home via the Channel tunnel from Calais. They discovered the boy, who they were later told

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