Norfolk couple fined £3,000 after migrant found in van in Suffolk

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Norfolk couple fined £3,000 after migrant found in van in Suffolk
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The couple hope the fine will be taken away after they say they did nothing wrong.

A couple are calling unfair a £3,000 fine they received after informing police they had found a migrant hiding in their van as they arrived in the UK from France.

But when travelling through Suffolk on the journey home, they heard knocking and found another migrant and called the police. "We got to Barton Mills, heard a knock on the van, and thought there's someone in the back," Ms Cave told"Ed let him out, and I called the police, and he got apprehended at the service station.

Ms Cave said they were too scared to inform them that their van had already been checked by custom teams.A few months later, they received a letter informing them that they were being fined." why? It's not our fault.The couple must pay the fine within the next two years but was paying monthly due to not being able to pay it off in full.

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