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The Sun
02-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
The brazen Brit traffickers using astonishing legal loophole to ship in migrants for £12k a head to work on YOUR street
WITH his easy-going charm, former British soldier Nick fitted in with the wealthy yacht owners sipping gin and tonics on their decks at Ramsgate Marina. Having grown up sailing on the Channel with his dad, he was thrilled with the 21ft-long yacht he had recently bought and loved to take it out at night, enjoying the peace and freedom he experienced under the stars. 9 9 9 9 But these trips were fraught with danger because amiable, good-humoured Nick was actually a secret people smuggler on his way to pick up illegal migrants at Dunkirk in France and bring them to the UK. And, in choosing Ramsgate, he was deliberately flouting the law under the very noses of the UK Border Control based there. It's a far cry from the image of hazardous crossings, with migrants packed on to inflatable rafts, that we see in the news. In fact, it was all plain sailing until Nick was eventually rumbled. But he says that the luxury yacht crossings that he pioneered continue to happen every day from swanky marinas around the country. The astonishing revelation comes after 1,194 migrants crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, marking the highest daily number of migrant small boat crossings since 2022. Nick (not his real name) reveals his story to investigative journalist Annabel Deas in the 10-part BBC Radio 4 series Shadow World: The Smuggler. 'We all think we know who people smugglers are,' says Annabel. 'They are people from far away countries with different values and ideas. People who can somehow justify making money out of desperate migrants. "At least, that's who I thought they were. But what if some of the people illegally smuggling migrants into the UK are actually from here? British people smugglers with an intimate knowledge of our borders.' The builder turned smuggler Nick had unexpectedly become a people smuggler in 2009 after his work as a self-employed builder dried up and his Albanian employee, Matt, told him that he could make easy money as a white man with a British passport. With a baby on the way, he was desperate and soon discovered how easy it was to take his car on to the ferry at Dover, pick up pre-arranged illegal Albanian emigrants at Dunkirk and hide them in the boot as he drove back on board for the return journey. Once on the ferry, he would wait for people to evacuate the car deck, then go down and release the man from the boot of his vehicle before finding a suitable lorry for the migrant to cut a hole through the tarpaulin and hide inside. At Dover, he sent a picture and registration plate of the lorry to a member of the Albanian gang keeping watch and then drove through passport control in his car. That was his work done. The following of the lorry and getting the immigrant out of it was somebody else's business. Nick would pocket £3,500 for his 'day trip to France". 'It was so easy,' he says. 'I did it many times and made good money.' His girlfriend broke up with him a few months before their baby was born, but by now, Nick was enjoying the lifestyle. However, after several successful runs, his luck ran out when his car was pulled over to be checked at Dunkirk and a migrant was found hidden in the boot. Nick feigned surprise he was there but he served five months in a French prison before being released. It was a relatively short sentence because they were unaware that he was a seasoned people smuggler. 9 While he was in prison, he heard that Matt had also been caught after a hidden migrant unexpectedly jumped out of a lorry after leaving Dover and got his foot caught in the wheel. The police were called and their investigation led to Matt receiving a seven-year prison sentence. Having served his time in France, Nick returned home to England and began trying to get work as a decorator, but within days he was visited by a mysterious man and woman who refused to identify themselves. 'They showed me a long list of ferry bookings from Dunkirk to Dover, all booked under my name and said, 'You're going to help us or we're going to hold you responsible for some of these.' I had a feeling they were from MI5.' So, for a time, in 2015, he acted as an undercover informant, providing details about the workings of the Albanian gang who had employed him, before one day it suddenly ended. 'The guy just said to me, 'Thank you for your help but we don't need it any more.' And that was it.' After Matt was granted early release, in 2017, he contacted Nick about a new operation brokered by a glamorous, middle-aged Vietnamese woman called Lin, who wanted to smuggle in her fellow countrymen to work on the 35 cannabis farms she had set up around the UK. This time Nick would receive £12,000 per migrant – almost four times the previous rate. It was too tempting to turn down. No longer able to book ferry crossings without alerting the authorities, Nick came up with the idea of using a sailing boat. Matt was surprised but was eventually persuaded and they purchased a boat. Nick then set about finding the perfect route, studying tidal charts and maps, and eventually settled on Ramsgate, Kent, where the UK Border Force is based. 'I chose it because I could monitor them,' he explains. 'It's a big marina and difficult to watch everyone and there would be several shifts of observers. "Also, if you pretend that you are one of the wealthy, who can sit around on boats, then you will fit in. And I do that well.' Lucy Moreton from the Union for Borders, Emigration and Customs, representing frontline staff, says: 'We know that small boats in and around the UK don't declare who they are or who they've got on board and don't say where they are going. They don't have to. 'The law doesn't require them to do that. Generally, they are an independent bunch and the vast majority of them are completely law abiding and just want to go out and sail around. "But that does leave a really exploitable loophole for individuals who want to do harm. There could be thriving small boat traffic that we're not actually looking at.' 9 9 9 After months of planning, Nick set sail from Ramsgate at 1am. Directly, it should only take a few hours but he was being careful and headed north for at least an hour in case anyone was watching. Once he was sure of not being followed, he made a sudden U-turn in the middle of the North Sea and began heading south to Dunkirk where four Vietnamese men were waiting for him. Back in Ramsgate, with the four migrants hidden in the cabin, he moored the boat, walked away and drove home. Following the plan, one of the Albanians would go to the marina and, under cover of darkness, collect the migrants. Once they were taken safely to the cannabis farms, Nick would be paid. But on one occasion, when the migrants were collected while it was still light, they were observed by others and the police were contacted, and Nick had to stay away. A surveillance team was called into operation to keep an eye on Nick's movements. Nick managed to carry out his ruse for up to 18 months before being caught. In late summer 2018, officers spotted him sail into view with four Vietnamese men in his boat. He was arrested and charged with conspiracy to facilitate the illegal entry of foreign nationals into the UK and sentenced to eight years in prison. 'What Nick was doing was unprecedented,' says Annabel. 'Smuggling people into the UK using a boat was virtually unheard of in 2016. You could say that Nick paved the way for the small boat crisis that would come later.' Dinghy crisis More than 13,000 people have crossed the English Channel on small boats so far in 2025. Last year, 78 people died attempting to make the journey - a record number. 'Most gangs now use small, over-crowded, inflatable boats to send people across the English Channel, knowing that once they enter British waters, those on board will be intercepted by Border Force and brought safely ashore. The migrants are then placed in hotels while their asylum claims are considered,' says Annabel. 'But what about the people who don't want to be rescued and instead want to creep in unnoticed, like the ones Nick brought in? 'He told me that right now, gangs are still smuggling people into the UK using marinas and yacht clubs around the country.' 'While we were making this series, a luxury yacht, hiding 20 Albanians below deck was intercepted on its way to a marina in Cornwall.' Labour's vow to 'smash the gangs' won't see Channel migrant numbers fall until NEXT YEAR, sources warn Labour's promise to "smash the gangs" will not see Channel migrant numbers fall until at least next year. Measures to break the route "up stream" by tackling smugglers and boat suppliers will take months to trickle down according to law enforcement sources. Ministers have been warned good weather this year is also contributing to a surge in crossings that are on course for a record year. The number of so called "red days" when the calm seas and wind make it perfect to cross have doubled in 2025 so far according to the same point last year. And intelligence monitoring of the Channel has indicated a rise in migrants from the Horn of Africa has seen riskier and larger crossings attempted. Those smugglers are cramming more people into boats, which is also pushing up the numbers. More than 13,000 people have already made the journey this year, putting 2025 on course to have the highest ever number of crossings, since records began in 2017. Government insiders are highly pessimistic about the prospect of reducing numbers this year. And they warn that policy changes and increase in enforcement measures not noticeably pay off until 2026 due to the high numbers of migrants already in France and ready to attempt the perilous journey. Former Border Force chief Tony Smith told the BBC the "vast majority" of the agency's resources were deployed to the Small Boats Operational Command and that he would like to see focus on other marinas. "My preference certainly would be to be able to deploy more widely and to look more across the whole of the UK coastline to identify threats," he said, adding he thought the interviews with Nick would be "really, really helpful as another source of intelligence". Nick insists small marinas are still being used today and adds: 'People are going to hate me because there'll be smuggling going on now. When they hear this, there's going to be an issue. "I regret a lot of it, but I don't know that it would have ever been any different," he says. "I think I was always out for self-destruction anyway."
Scottish Sun
02-06-2025
- Scottish Sun
The brazen Brit traffickers using astonishing legal loophole to ship in migrants for £12k a head to work on YOUR street
The shameless new tactic has infiltrated unlikely holiday hotspots across the UK, reveals a former people smuggler who evaded cops for months SMUGGLER'S PARADISE The brazen Brit traffickers using astonishing legal loophole to ship in migrants for £12k a head to work on YOUR street WITH his easy-going charm, former British soldier Nick fitted in with the wealthy yacht owners sipping gin and tonics on their decks at Ramsgate Marina. Having grown up sailing on the Channel with his dad, he was thrilled with the 21ft-long yacht he had recently bought and loved to take it out at night, enjoying the peace and freedom he experienced under the stars. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 10 Former builder Nick turned to people smuggling after work dried up, before realising he could smuggle them into the UK on yachts. Stock picture Credit: Getty 10 Albanian nationals were found hidden below deck on a yacht in Cornwall just weeks ago Credit: ITV 10 When Border Force officers searched the yacht they found 20 passengers - 19 men and one woman - hidden below deck Credit: ITV 10 Nick helped smuggle in Albanian migrants to work on cannabis farms. Pictured, a drug factory found in a former post office Credit: UNPIXS (EUROPE) But these trips were fraught with danger because amiable, good-humoured Nick was actually a secret people smuggler on his way to pick up illegal migrants at Dunkirk in France and bring them to the UK. And, in choosing Ramsgate, he was deliberately flouting the law under the very noses of the UK Border Control based there. It's a far cry from the image of hazardous crossings, with migrants packed on to inflatable rafts, that we see in the news. In fact, it was all plain sailing until Nick was eventually rumbled. But he says that the luxury yacht crossings that he pioneered continue to happen every day from swanky marinas around the country. The astonishing revelation comes after 1,194 migrants crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, marking the highest daily number of migrant small boat crossings since 2022. Nick (not his real name) reveals his story to investigative journalist Annabel Deas in the 10-part BBC Radio 4 series Shadow World: The Smuggler. 'We all think we know who people smugglers are,' says Annabel. 'They are people from far away countries with different values and ideas. People who can somehow justify making money out of desperate migrants. "At least, that's who I thought they were. But what if some of the people illegally smuggling migrants into the UK are actually from here? British people smugglers with an intimate knowledge of our borders.' The builder turned smuggler Nick had unexpectedly become a people smuggler in 2009 after his work as a self-employed builder dried up and his Albanian employee, Matt, told him that he could make easy money as a white man with a British passport. With a baby on the way, he was desperate and soon discovered how easy it was to take his car on to the ferry at Dover, pick up pre-arranged illegal Albanian emigrants at Dunkirk and hide them in the boot as he drove back on board for the return journey. Scores of migrants board overloaded dinghies to make dangerous Channel crossing to UK - as French cops watch on Once on the ferry, he would wait for people to evacuate the car deck, then go down and release the man from the boot of his vehicle before finding a suitable lorry for the migrant to cut a hole through the tarpaulin and hide inside. At Dover, he sent a picture and registration plate of the lorry to a member of the Albanian gang keeping watch and then drove through passport control in his car. That was his work done. The following of the lorry and getting the immigrant out of it was somebody else's business. Nick would pocket £3,500 for his 'day trip to France". 'It was so easy,' he says. 'I did it many times and made good money.' His girlfriend broke up with him a few months before their baby was born, but by now, Nick was enjoying the lifestyle. However, after several successful runs, his luck ran out when his car was pulled over to be checked at Dunkirk and a migrant was found hidden in the boot. Nick feigned surprise he was there but he served five months in a French prison before being released. It was a relatively short sentence because they were unaware that he was a seasoned people smuggler. 10 Cops uncover a cannabis farm after a drugs bust in North Wales Credit: North Wales Police 10 Cops arrest a suspected Albanian drug smuggler in Cofton Hackett, Worcs Credit: SWNS While he was in prison, he heard that Matt had also been caught after a hidden migrant unexpectedly jumped out of a lorry after leaving Dover and got his foot caught in the wheel. The police were called and their investigation led to Matt receiving a seven-year prison sentence. Having served his time in France, Nick returned home to England and began trying to get work as a decorator, but within days he was visited by a mysterious man and woman who refused to identify themselves. 'They showed me a long list of ferry bookings from Dunkirk to Dover, all booked under my name and said, 'You're going to help us or we're going to hold you responsible for some of these.' I had a feeling they were from MI5.' So, for a time, in 2015, he acted as an undercover informant, providing details about the workings of the Albanian gang who had employed him, before one day it suddenly ended. 'The guy just said to me, 'Thank you for your help but we don't need it any more.' And that was it.' 10 After Matt was granted early release, in 2017, he contacted Nick about a new operation brokered by a glamorous, middle-aged Vietnamese woman called Lin, who wanted to smuggle in her fellow countrymen to work on the 35 cannabis farms she had set up around the UK. This time Nick would receive £12,000 per migrant – almost four times the previous rate. It was too tempting to turn down. No longer able to book ferry crossings without alerting the authorities, Nick came up with the idea of using a sailing boat. Matt was surprised but was eventually persuaded and they purchased a boat. Nick then set about finding the perfect route, studying tidal charts and maps, and eventually settled on Ramsgate, Kent, where the UK Border Force is based. 'I chose it because I could monitor them,' he explains. 'It's a big marina and difficult to watch everyone and there would be several shifts of observers. "Also, if you pretend that you are one of the wealthy, who can sit around on boats, then you will fit in. And I do that well.' It was so easy. I did it many times and made good money Nick on his ferry smuggling career Lucy Moreton from the Union for Borders, Emigration and Customs, representing frontline staff, says: 'We know that small boats in and around the UK don't declare who they are or who they've got on board and don't say where they are going. They don't have to. 'The law doesn't require them to do that. Generally, they are an independent bunch and the vast majority of them are completely law abiding and just want to go out and sail around. "But that does leave a really exploitable loophole for individuals who want to do harm. There could be thriving small boat traffic that we're not actually looking at.' 10 Over 1,100 migrants entered the UK on Saturday Credit: PA 10 Holiday hotspots like Cornwall are being used to unload migrants smuggled in on luxury yachts Credit: Getty 10 Nick ran his operation from Ramsgate by posing as an innocuous yacht owner Credit: Getty After months of planning, Nick set sail from Ramsgate at 1am. Directly, it should only take a few hours but he was being careful and headed north for at least an hour in case anyone was watching. Once he was sure of not being followed, he made a sudden U-turn in the middle of the North Sea and began heading south to Dunkirk where four Vietnamese men were waiting for him. Back in Ramsgate, with the four migrants hidden in the cabin, he moored the boat, walked away and drove home. Following the plan, one of the Albanians would go to the marina and, under cover of darkness, collect the migrants. Once they were taken safely to the cannabis farms, Nick would be paid. But on one occasion, when the migrants were collected while it was still light, they were observed by others and the police were contacted, and Nick had to stay away. A surveillance team was called into operation to keep an eye on Nick's movements. Nick managed to carry out his ruse for up to 18 months before being caught. In late summer 2018, officers spotted him sail into view with four Vietnamese men in his boat. He was arrested and charged with conspiracy to facilitate the illegal entry of foreign nationals into the UK and sentenced to eight years in prison. 'What Nick was doing was unprecedented,' says Annabel. 'Smuggling people into the UK using a boat was virtually unheard of in 2016. You could say that Nick paved the way for the small boat crisis that would come later.' Dinghy crisis More than 13,000 people have crossed the English Channel on small boats so far in 2025. Last year, 78 people died attempting to make the journey - a record number. 'Most gangs now use small, over-crowded, inflatable boats to send people across the English Channel, knowing that once they enter British waters, those on board will be intercepted by Border Force and brought safely ashore. The migrants are then placed in hotels while their asylum claims are considered,' says Annabel. 'But what about the people who don't want to be rescued and instead want to creep in unnoticed, like the ones Nick brought in? 'He told me that right now, gangs are still smuggling people into the UK using marinas and yacht clubs around the country.' 'While we were making this series, a luxury yacht, hiding 20 Albanians below deck was intercepted on its way to a marina in Cornwall.' Labour's vow to 'smash the gangs' won't see Channel migrant numbers fall until NEXT YEAR, sources warn Labour's promise to "smash the gangs" will not see Channel migrant numbers fall until at least next year. Measures to break the route "up stream" by tackling smugglers and boat suppliers will take months to trickle down according to law enforcement sources. Ministers have been warned good weather this year is also contributing to a surge in crossings that are on course for a record year. The number of so called "red days" when the calm seas and wind make it perfect to cross have doubled in 2025 so far according to the same point last year. And intelligence monitoring of the Channel has indicated a rise in migrants from the Horn of Africa has seen riskier and larger crossings attempted. Those smugglers are cramming more people into boats, which is also pushing up the numbers. More than 13,000 people have already made the journey this year, putting 2025 on course to have the highest ever number of crossings, since records began in 2017. Government insiders are highly pessimistic about the prospect of reducing numbers this year. And they warn that policy changes and increase in enforcement measures not noticeably pay off until 2026 due to the high numbers of migrants already in France and ready to attempt the perilous journey. Former Border Force chief Tony Smith told the BBC the "vast majority" of the agency's resources were deployed to the Small Boats Operational Command and that he would like to see focus on other marinas. "My preference certainly would be to be able to deploy more widely and to look more across the whole of the UK coastline to identify threats," he said, adding he thought the interviews with Nick would be "really, really helpful as another source of intelligence". Nick insists small marinas are still being used today and adds: 'People are going to hate me because there'll be smuggling going on now. When they hear this, there's going to be an issue. "I regret a lot of it, but I don't know that it would have ever been any different," he says. "I think I was always out for self-destruction anyway." Shadow World: The Smuggler is available now on BBC Sounds
Telegraph
28-05-2025
- General
- Telegraph
If someone wants to come into this country illegally, there are people ready and willing to help
There are many things that will shock you about The Smuggler (BBC Sounds), investigative journalist Annabel Deas's 10-part podcast about a chap called 'Nick'. That a former Royal Engineer in the British Army could turn into a lynchpin – and pioneer – of the people-smuggling trade on the Channel. That some individual migrants repeatedly re-enter the country using the same methods. That Nick could get paid up to £12k per person (imagine how much the people above him in the chain were making). But the thing that will shock you most – and that certainly shocked Nick – was how easy it was. However Deas got hold of Nick (not his real name) and convinced him to spill the beans we'll likely never know (no money changed hands), but this is surely the scoop of her career so far. Across the episodes, Nick is extraordinarily candid about how he did what he did – though presumably less than honest about why – and his insouciance about the whole endeavour, while occasionally sticking in the craw, reveals an uncomfortable truth about our borders and about British society as a whole. It also makes laughable various politicians' repeated promises to tackle illegal immigration. The truth of the matter is this: if someone wants to come to this country illegally, there are people like Nick ready, willing and able to help them do so. Nick's story is that he fell on hard times – a self-employed builder hammered by the 2008 recession, with a baby on the way, he was desperate for cash. One of the men who worked for him, an Albanian named Matt, had repeatedly, cryptically mentioned Nick's passport to him. 'You'll always be OK,' Matt told him, 'because you have that passport'. One day, at a low ebb, Nick finally caved and asked Matt exactly what he meant. On a day trip to Calais, Matt showed him. Here's where you'll pick up a migrant and stick them in the boot of your car. Here's where you'll let them out on the ferry. Here's the knife you'll give them to cut a tear into the side of a lorry. Here's the phone you'll use to text one of my friends who'll be waiting in Dover. And here, hypothetically, is the £3,500 that will be waiting for you by the time you get home. Nick – white, British, confident – was a gift to the Albanians. His training with the Royal Engineers made him an expert in reconnaissance and concealment, while his knowledge of sailing would later become invaluable. Getting people on lorries inside the ferries proves as easy as falling off a log, once his early nerves settle down. Even when he messes up and loses one frequent flyer in the duty-free terminal, it is resolved in his favour, in the most farcical manner – I won't reveal exactly how, except to say that the ferry company should be extremely embarrassed. Nick's attitude throughout is that of Del Boy flogging a few VHS machines that fell off the back of a lorry. The most extraordinary revelation comes midway through, with Nick forced to think of alternative routes to the ferries. This was the mid-2010s, around the time of the Brexit referendum, and the idea of 'small boats' bringing migrants across was unheard of, even to the authorities who kept tabs on the smugglers. Even the Albanian gang he worked for thought he was 'mad' when Nick suggested the future was a small sailboat and a series of leisure marinas. 'I'm creating something,' says Nick, with no little pride. He monetised his ingenuity. It was, once again, startlingly easy, and life on the open water was a pleasure. 'I loved it,' he says of the sailing. Yet while Nick reveals the unsettling ease with which people can be smuggled into the UK, he also reveals an awful lot about himself. The desire to provide for his daughter was surely genuine, but it's hard to believe him when he says he had 'no choice' but to become a people smuggler. He admits he was a self-employed builder because he struggled to work for others, while he had to quit the Army following a fight with a fellow soldier. He also shows absolutely no sense of conscience towards the migrants themselves, convincing himself that he is a mere taxi driver for people making positive life decisions. When Deas mentions people-trafficking, not smuggling, he bristles. Yet he never asked any questions about who he was bringing into the country. Despite his eloquence and likeability, his charming breeziness wears thin by the end, with Deas gently exposing Nick's inability to think of the migrants as anything other than cargo. It's a vital listen, and one that will change your perception of the society around you. You'll certainly never look at the pleasure boats in your local marina – or your local builder – in the same way again.
Spectator
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
My friend the people smuggler
Usually when I start listening to a true-life podcast, I don't know how it ends. That's not the case with The Smuggler, BBC Radio 4's new investigation into people smuggling. Across ten episodes, its Orwell Prize-winning presenter, Annabel Deas, tells the story of 'Nick', on the face of it an unlikely protagonist. Nick is white, English and a former soldier in the British Army. He's also a friend of mine. We met in jail in 2021 and have stayed in contact ever since. So I know Nick's story. I even know how it ends. Despite all this, I found myself absolutely gripped by The Smuggler. This is partly because it's such a fascinating, and timely, topic. Migration is rarely out of the news. Keir Starmer keeps promising to 'smash the gangs' and 'stop the boats'. But how do the gangs work, and how are people actually smuggled across the Channel? On the podcast, Nick shares the details of how and when he brought migrants over and how his methods changed over time, and reveals shocking gaps in Britain's border security.
BBC News
30-04-2025
- BBC News
The Smuggler: New BBC Radio 4 podcast series follows the life of a former British army soldier turned people smuggler
Everyone thinks they know who people smugglers are. They're people from 'somewhere else', far away from the UK. But what if we're wrong, what if some of the people illegally smuggling migrants into the UK are actually from here? British people smugglers with an intimate knowledge of our borders. A new 10-part podcast series for BBC Radio 4 presented by investigative journalist Annabel Deas (Orwell Prize winner 2021), explores how 'Nick', a former soldier in the British Army, became a people smuggler working with organised crime gangs from Albania and Vietnam based in the UK. He has twice been to prison for his crimes. Shadow World: The Smuggler is an intimate portrait of a British people smuggler - hearing from the perpetrator directly, to uncover his motivations, methods and the consequences of risking the lives of desperate people. The investigation exposes how the smuggling techniques Nick used are still possible today and details the ease with which smugglers can bring migrants into the UK without being caught. Everyone knows about smugglers who bring migrants in on small boats but the methods Nick used are rarely heard about. Across the series, he reveals how he illegally smuggled migrants onto cross channel ferries inside cars and lorries, and how he used private marinas to bring migrants into the UK hidden inside a sailboat. The investigation also exposes the ease with which foreign nationals with previous criminal records in the UK were able to operate an international smuggling ring – as Nick first becomes involved with an Albanian organised crime gang based near London and then a Vietnamese woman with previous convictions for running cannabis farms in England. Presenter Annabel Deas says "No one expects to meet a people smuggler, let alone someone as unguarded and open as "Nick", a former British soldier about the same age as me. I thought I knew who people smugglers were and what they did - but I was completely wrong. My investigation takes us deep into the UK's hidden criminal landscape, where a British man became entwined with Albanian and Vietnamese crime gangs who were able to operate with impunity using techniques which the authorities appear powerless to stop." Commissioning editor Daniel Clarke says "This series is incredibly eye opening, revealing the inner workings of how people smugglers are operating so close to home. At a time when there is so much discussion around the migrant crisis, this series explores the methods that people smugglers are using which don't reach the headlines.' Shadow World: The Smuggler starts on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 26 May at 1.45pm. Produced by Hayley Mortimer, sound design by Neil Churchill, the series editor is Matt Willis. The Smuggler was produced by Long Form Audio. Commissioned by Daniel Clarke and Tracy Williams Listen to Shadow World on BBC Sounds About Shadow World Shadow World is Radio 4's umbrella feed for narrative podcast serials that unfold like real-life detective stories and uncover remarkable things about the UK today. Previous series include Thief at the British Museum, presented by Katie Razzall and The Willpower Detectives, presented by Sue Mitchell. RB2
