Screenshot evidence gathered by police shows how a people smuggler used TikTok to promote cross Channel journeys. <\/p>\n
Jaskirat Singh, 25, from Wolverhampton, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Thursday after he admitted conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration at a previous hearing.<\/p>\n
Canterbury Crown Court heard how Singh said in a voice note he had been organising cross-Channel journeys for four years, during an apparent bid to recruit someone to his operation.<\/p>\n
According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Singh had earned about \u00a3185,000 smuggling people from the UK to France in the back of lorries.<\/p>\n
Evidence presented in court demonstrated how Singh used social media to promote the criminal enterprise.<\/p>\n
One screenshot features a background of sandy beaches, with text saying “UK to France, safe done”, indicating a safe crossing. Another image shows the back of what appears to be a cargo ship with freight lorries on it, suggesting that people are crossing by concealment within the vehicles. <\/p>\n
Also seized were a phone which had messages on organising transport, videos of \u00a320 notes spread out on a bed and a TikTok account apparently advertising cross-Channel journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot evidence gathered by police shows how a people smuggler used TikTok to promote cross Channel journeys. Jaskirat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}