People smuggler caught with dinghy, 50 life jackets and fuel in French woods told cops they’re just for ‘sex games’
A BRAZEN people smuggler caught with a 32ft boat, 50 life jackets and fuel in French woods claimed to be dogging.
The culprit, 21, told cops the gear hidden under his rented Peugeot van’s moveable floor was “for use in sex games”, a court heard.
He said a woman sitting in a car next to him at 4.30am — with £800 stuffed in her bra she said was a “gift from her grandmother” — was also a dogger.
Police swooped at Gravelines, near Calais — a regular setting off point for migrants — following a surveillance operation.
A source said: “The suspect said the equipment was for use in a sex game and had nothing to do with people smuggling.
“He said he had organised meetings with other doggers.
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“Police found this laughable.”
The man, of Roubaix, northern France, who is too young to be identified under French law, got ten months’ jail for running a people-smuggling network, with six months suspended.
Prosecutors, who sought two years with no suspension, have appealed at a Dunkirk court.