A Turkish national has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of supplying thousands of small boats and engines used by people smugglers to transport asylum seekers across the English ...

A TURKISH boat dealer who boasted he was “King of the people smugglers” has been jailed for 11 years for helping hundreds of thousands cross the English Channel. Adem Savas, 45, pocketed millions from ...

He boasted that he was the ‘King of Transport’, but some of his passengers didn’t survive the journey. Adem Savas was named as Britain’s most wanted man after becoming the biggest supplier of small ...

A man who supplied thousands of small boats and engines to people smugglers in the English Channel has been jailed. Adem Savas was described by the National Crime Agency, which previously listed him ...

20:27, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 Updated: 20:28, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 Reaching British waters is no longer the hard part. Once here, the balance tilts decisively in one direction. Accommodation at public expense, ...

Second highest annual number of irregular arrivals on record reached British shores in 2025 More than 41,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats last year, figures branded “shameful” by the Home ...

The number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats in 2025 climbed to its second-highest level since records began, official figures showed on Thursday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Keir ...

A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the Channel on a small boat - the second-highest annual figure on record. No migrants made the journey on New Year's Eve, the Home ...

10:20, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 Updated: 13:13, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 A total of 41,472 small boat migrants arrived in the UK in 2025. It marks the second-highest year on record after 45,774 made the dangerous ...

A United Nations official has suggested Britain's 40,000 small boat arrivals are nothing. Filippo Grandi, the outgoing head of the UN refugee agency who is leaving his post at the end of December, ...

The total number of Channel crossings for 2025 now stands at 41,455 people SOME 803 small boat migrants crossed the Channel yesterday in 13 dinghies in the highest number for two months – with Labour ...

The total number of Channel crossings for 2025 now stands at 41,455 people (Gareth Fuller/PA) More than 41,000 people have now crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, after a flurry of ...