A team of blundering Border Agency officials have accidentally helped to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the UK. Even better, the customs team did so as they returned from a fact-finding mission to France to find out how to stop immigrants from getting in.
The man is thought to have hidden in a small space between the fuel tank and the chassis of the coach which had returned from France to Folkestone in the Channel Tunnel.
After holding on for the 25 minute journey he was seen climbing out and running off once in the UK - the Border Agency team onboard were unable to catch him.
On hearing the odd news a Border Agency official said they didn't see or hear the man ... because they were too busy trying, and failing, to organize a piss-up in a brewery.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said an investigation was being launched and that it was further evidence of the extreme and dangerous illegal measures that are being taken to enter the UK.
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