Migrants crossing the Channel in small boats are bringing heroin into Britain on behalf of people smugglers, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Asylum seekers are being offered free or cut-price crossings from northern France if they swallow packets of Class A drugs and deliver them to organised criminal gangs in Britain.
Some migrants who agree to smuggle cocaine and heroin are offered “VIP crossings”, joining women and children on boats that criminals believe attract less suspicion.
🔴 Asylum seekers are being offered cut-price crossings from northern France if they swallow packets of Class A drugs and deliver them to organised criminal gangs in Britain
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 8, 2025
