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Fine cancelled for Essex couple who found migrant on motorhome

Martin Heath

BBC News, Essex

Steve Hubbard/Mr. BBC, Fenton's short hair, blue T-shirt and black Gilet stood next to Mrs. Fenton, with long hair, white hair, white shirt and stone-colored jacket. They stood next to the white RV with grey and black details.Steve Hubbard/BBC

Adrian and Joanne Fenton were ordered to pay a £1,500 fine

A couple was fined £1,500 after reporting a migrant clutched to the bike rack on the RV and was told the fine had been cancelled.

The Home Office has ordered Adrian and Joanne Fenton of Heybridge, Essex, to fine “failed to check that there are no secret contestants in the vehicle when crossing the British channel”.

Mr Fenton said the border forces now told him his objections to responsibility and reduced the fine to £0.

Mrs. Fenton said she was “ecstatic” about the changes in the Home Office.

Mr. Fenton, 57, boarded the Lebane from Calais Island on the evening of October 15 after traveling in France on the evening of October 15.

Mrs. Fenton, 55, told JVS performs on BBC three counties broadcast After a six-hour drive, her husband unbuttoned the cover of the bicycle rack and found the immigrants inside.

Joanne Fenton is in a home brick garage. A figure was seen sitting on the floor - blurred face - wearing a white and grey top and grey jeans and black socks. A man in dark clothes, wearing truncheon attacking him, was standing next to the man on the floor. Another man in dark clothes was watching.Joanne Fenton

Mrs Fenton said immigration told police he was 16 years old and from Sudan

The couple said they called police and told them they had found the storage room.

Mrs. Fenton said the boy later told police he was 16 years old and from Sudan.

Then, they received an email saying they were fined.

Mrs. Fenton argued that the man had been insisting on being outside the RV, not inside.

Mr. Felton said he thought he did the right thing by calling the police.

Steve Hubbard/BBC Adrian Fenton, wearing short black hair, a beard wearing black Gilet and holding up a dark cover at the back of the RV. There are grey and orange patches in the middle of the cover. The RV is in a family driveway with hedges on the left and right.Steve Hubbard/BBC

The couple said stovaway was found under the bicycle rack cover

The couple now received an email from Border Forces, which is part of the Home Office, reducing the fine to £0.

Mrs. Fenton said: “It’s about RVs and caravans that cross the border – how many people will be caught by how many?”

Steve Hubbard/BBC Joanne Fenton, long hair and stone coat with white shirt underneath. She looked at the camera. She is next to the white RV with grey and black details.Steve Hubbard/BBC

Joanne Fenton

Her husband added: “We don’t want others to go through everything we go through.

“If someone calls the police for finding someone in an RV, the border forces shouldn’t even consider fines because everyone is doing moral and right things.”

He said the Home Office should be “looking into their policies and making sure it is suitable for the purpose rather than for holidaymakers.”

Mrs. Fenton said the couple will still take their RV abroad, but “very careful – no cover on the bike rack.”

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