Man who smuggled nearly 4,000 migrants jailed for 25 years

An Egyptian man has been jailed for 25 years for running a people smuggling operation from a house in Isleworth, West London.

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Ahmed Ebid was at the helm of an operation that trafficked nearly 4,000 people in fishing boats across the Mediterranean from Africa to Italy, in an operation worth more than £12 million.

At sentencing, the judge said he had ruthlessly and cynically exploited desperate people.

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