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25 years in prison for smuggler
Paisley Daily Express
|May 21, 2025
A UK-BASED people smuggler who helped to “ruthlessly and cynically” exploit migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
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Egypt-born Ahmed Ebid, 42, helped to organise the movement of nearly 3,800 migrants - including women and children - on just seven fishing boat crossings from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, and some of them made their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
This story is from the May 21, 2025 edition of Paisley Daily Express.
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