Leicester Man Jailed for People Smuggling Ring

0:00A lester man named Hop and Gwyn, 36 years old, just got hit with a 12-year prison sentence for running a slick people smuggling ring-on, Facebook. He teamed up with Hoang-Win, 25, from Croydon, No Relations, and they pushed ads for risky small boat trips across the channel, luring. Vietnamese folks with deals under 3,000 pounds ahead. They blasted posts with videos of the crossings, UK numbers, and hype like fast-flights to the UK. And switched chats to Zalo for the real deals. This duo was plugged into a bigger European network, moving migrants from the continent right into Britain. These ops put at least 250 people on those deadly boats, from January 2023 to April 2024, raking in about. £750,000, just from the ledger's cops found. Even after Border Force nabs some arrivals, the pairs set them up to ditch hotels and vanish into communities. People crime agency dug deep for five months, tailing them with surveillance that caught

1:00Hopet-Uston station, escorting fresh crossers. April 2024 rests, nabbed phones, cash, over 8,000 pounds at Hoang-Spot, and proof of the whole scheme. Both guys snuck in the same way themselves. Now with deportation orders locked in, the NCA is doubling down, yanking thousands of shady social media posts in chasing these networks, coast to. Coast to shut them down for good. That's your update from Lester News today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.