Cooper: Prosecute all on boat if a child dies

EVERYONE who arrives in the UK on a small boat where a child has died should face prosecution, the Home Secretary has claimed.

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Yvette Cooper said it was “totally appalling” children were being “crushed to death on these overcrowded boats, and yet the boat still continues to the UK”.

She added: “Everybody who is arriving on a boat where a child's life has been lost, frankly, should be facing prosecution, either in the UK or in France.”

The Government has already included a new offence of “endangering life at sea” in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill making its way through Parliament.