Could These Chaps Be Considered Unlikely Martyrs For Helping The Less Fortunate Find A New Life?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/men-jailed-for-attempting-to-smuggle-migrants/ar-BBv1dd0?li=BBoPWjQ

[ToraToraTora]

"Each of the migrants had paid £6,000 for the crossing - and Stribling and Stilwell were expecting to pocket £2,000 each from the deal." - not entirely philanthropic are they!

[sandyRoe]

There was more than 100K paid and they only got 2K each. Where did the rest go, I wonder?

[retrocop]

Expenses and overheads??

[sandyRoe]

Probably, the boat wouldn't have been cheap.

[anotheoldgit]

What you should be asking, why wasn't the 18 Albanian illegal immigrants jailed as well?

[sandyRoe]

So they were altruistic when they hardly made any profit from it.

[mushroom25]

//What you should be asking, why wasn't the 18 Albanian illegal immigrants jailed as well?//

they were subject to the full force of the uk immigration service - they were patted on the head and given a free train ticket to east croydon.

[anotheoldgit]

That is not all on the same day another was charged:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3714288/Pair-jailed-people-smuggling-Dymchurch-Kent.html

/// The sentencing came on the same day that a British sailor was jailed for four years and nine months for smuggling 17 immigrants into a south coast marina. ///

/// Judge Anthony said the Albanians were transported in cramped conditions, adding: 'Quite apart from the illegality, they are plainly at risk of their health and safety.' ///

Who cares, they are not forced to take these sea trips, in fact they pay for the privilege.

Send them all back across the channel, Britain is full.

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25

/// they were patted on the head and given a free train ticket to east croydon. ///

Hope they weren't patted too hard, else they would be claiming legal aid to take the country to court for damages.

[Bazile]

The rest of the 100k went on in-house catering

[Baldric]

Treasonous profiteers, throw away the key.

[Old_Geezer]

Just four years, presumably out in two ? Should be at least double that.
And as for the immigrants, if they weren't send back, then, seriously, why not ?

[mushroom25]

//if they weren't send back, then, seriously, why not ? //

mike ashley needs them.

[jourdain2]

Only if they had offered free passage, which they manifestly didn't.

[david small]

Agree with baldric.

[jambutty]

Me too.

[naomi24]

sandyRoe's wooden spoon is still in working order. ;o)

[sandyRoe]

Not so, Naomi. These men seem to me to be rogues with hearts of gold. And in their golden hearts glows the Englishman's love of freedom and a knowledge that it isn't divisible. They might feel themselves less free while just a few miles away others long to share the liberty that all here enjoy.

[naomi24]

:o)

[anneasquith]

Don't think sandyroe would use a " wooden spoon" naomi