A Kurdish man allegedly behind deadly trips on the Channel. Known as ‘Red’, he boasts he can earn €50,000 a day
The Channel spits and swells beneath two dinghies that are slowly filling with icy black water, collapsing under the weight of 160 migrants who stampede towards the remaining upright corners of the vessels in ripped lifejackets and wearing makeshift arm-floats fashioned from plastic bottles.
By 7am, only an hour into two perilous boat crossings from northern France to the UK that took place last Saturday and which resulted in four fatalities, Hellen Getu, 27, was left gripping on to her older sister Hareg’s lifeless body to prevent it from being washed out to sea.
