Two small boat pilots jailed after endangering dozens of lives in record-breaking crossing

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Two small boat pilots have been jailed after they endangered dozens of lives in a record-breaking crossing.Omar Heidari, an Afghan national, steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to British shores last month.At Canterbury Crown Court, the 34-year-old was jailed for two years.Meanwhile, Manas Yuk, an 18-year-old Sudanese national, was handed 18 months in youth detention after he piloted a boat carrying 81 people, including children, just a few days beforehand on June 21.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Those on board the severely over-crowded boat included 13 children, some of whom were not wearing life jackets.Shocking aerial drone footage, shared by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) showed the migrants tightly packed on the dinghy, with some perched on the edge.When officials from the Border Security Command approached Yuk, the criminal tried to ditch his jacket in a desperate bid to conceal his identity.Heidari took 95 other migrants on the illegal journey on June 23.

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