irony

that's a lot of egg on the face for them...

Migrant slipped into UK aboard Border Agents' bus

An illegal immigrant was on the run last night after smuggling himself into the country on a Border Agency coach bringing immigration officers back from France.

The man is believed to have climbed under the coach, when it was parked at the Eurotunnel shuttle terminal in Calais, hiding between the fuel tank and the chassis. He clung on during the journey through the Channel tunnel and through customs and immigration checkpoints at Dover. On arrival at the Border Agency’s depot near Folkestone, the stowaway dropped down from the coach, which was believed to have been carrying around 20 immigration officers, and was seen running away. He escaped despite the coach driver, a contractor, giving chase.

The Home Office said a full investigation is under way, with police and local immigration officers alerted. The embarrassing incident follows the revelation that the number of migrants arrested after entering the country hiding in lorries arriving from France nearly doubled in the first half of the year to 13,715.

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