The asylum seeker who became London's £12m migrant smuggler
When officers from the National Crime Agency raided the suburban London apartment of Ahmed Ebid, they discovered two notebooks. One appeared to be a ledger of payments, while the other was stuffed with longitude and latitude co-ordinates in the Mediterranean. The discovery in June 2023 would help the NCA to unmask Ebid as one of Britain's most prolific and ruthless people smugglers.
On Monday, he is expected to receive a long prison sentence at Southwark crown court in south London, after becoming the first person in Britain to be convicted of smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean.
Ebid, 42, an Egyptian-born fisherman, had been granted benefits and housed in an art deco-style block in Isleworth, southwest London, after illegally crossing the Channel in a small boat
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