Suspected illegal immigration arrest in Market Deeping

A man in his 30s has been arrested by police on suspicion of illegally entering the UK in Market Deeping today.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Feb 2015, 12:37 BST
Suspected illegal immigrant gets out of a lorry near the A15 in Market Deeping where police are waiting to arrest him. Photo: Kyle Kirkland.Suspected illegal immigrant gets out of a lorry near the A15 in Market Deeping where police are waiting to arrest him. Photo: Kyle Kirkland.
Suspected illegal immigrant gets out of a lorry near the A15 in Market Deeping where police are waiting to arrest him. Photo: Kyle Kirkland.

The arrest was made after a group of people were seen getting out of the back of a lorry on the A15 in the town just after 11am this morning.

A Cambridgeshire Constabulary spokesman confirmed that reports came in of suspected illegal immigrants in the back of a lorry on the A47 Paston Parkway heading towards the A15 at Market Deeping.

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Police officers then stopped a lorry and found “one person” in the back of it at about 11.15am.

A man has been arrested and is currently being taken to Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough to be interviewed by officers.

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