A people smuggler was caught trying to smuggle two Vietnamese nationals into the UK in the boot of his car to try and clear a 9,000 gambling debt.
Gavin Charters, from Liverpool, was arrested in Coquelles in France by Border Force officers on February 25, 2019.
They found a man and a woman, from Vietnam, in his vehicle boot.
On arrest, Charters told officers that he had been in France to meet a friend and go fishing.
But there was no fishing equipment in the vehicle and he wasnt able to reveal who he had met.
On further questioning Charters did not cooperate with the officers inquiries.
He later absconded from bail, prompting a ma…
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