Teenage migrant ‘arrived at Dover in a dinghy before running into a woman’s house and demanding to use her mobile phone’
- A teenage migrant ran into a woman’s home and demanded to use her phone
- The boy, thought to be around 16 and from Albania, ran through an open door
- He asked Sue Doyle, 59, from Aycliffe, for transport to London or Manchester
- The incident happened after an ‘uncontrolled landing ‘ on a beach near Dover
A teenage migrant ran into a woman’s home and demanded to use her phone after crossing the Channel and landing in Dover on a small boat.
Sue Doyle, 59, who lives in Aycliffe, a village near Dover, was asked for transport to either London or Manchester after the boy ran into her property through an open door on Sunday.
The incident happened after around 80 migrants in two dinghies landed on a Dover beach that morning, reaching British shores without being intercepted by UK authorities.
The flimsy boats were abandoned on the coastline along with discarded life jackers scattered across the shore.
A teenage migrant ran into a woman’s home and demanded to use her phone after crossing the Channel and landing in Dover on a small boat. Pictured, group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, on October 9, 2022
Border Force and Kent Police detained around 50 migrants after tracking them down, but around 30 have been reported missing, The Times reported.
Ms Doyle, had opened her back door to let her dog out when the teenager, thought to be around 16, ran into her home, The Telegraph reported.
She said that the teenager, thought to be from Albania, asked her to take him to Manchester, and when she refused, asked to use of her phone.
After being alerted to the teenager’s presence, neighbour Louise Monger, 37, ran into Ms Doyle’s house and ‘grabbed him by the scruff of the neck’ when she found him in a bedroom, she told The Telegraph.
She said she tried to apprehend the teenager, who she described as ‘looking scared’, before he was detained by police at the property.
Ms Monger detailed the incident on Aycliffe Community Forum, a resident social media page.
‘A young lad off a boat has made his way into a residents [sic] home this morning and demanded her phones and wanted transport to Manchester or London he has been detained by the police [p]lease remain vigilant and keep doors and windows locked stay safe,’ Ms Monger wrote on Aycliffe Community Forum, The Times reported.
Around 80 migrants in two dinghies landed on a Dover beach on Sunday morning, reaching British shores without being intercepted by UK authorities. Pictured, inflatable craft, used by migrants to cross the channel, stored at a facility in Dover, England
Natalie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover, said the incident was ‘greatly concerning’, and raised it with Home Secretary Grant Shapps.
‘Very concerned that more illegal arrivals landed on Dover’s beaches today and were not intercepted at sea,’ she posted on Twitter on Sunday.
Kent Police confirmed that a migrant had asked to use the phone at a property, and that he was detained by police.
The force added that he had not committed any offences and was transferred to immigration officials, The Times reported.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed there was one ‘uncontrolled landing’ on Sunday, which is thought to have involved the two small abandoned boats.
In addition, 528 migrants on a further 10 dinghies were escorted to Britain by Border Force and RNLI boats on Sunday.
French authorities also rescued 62 people crammed into one dinghy off the Calais coast after getting into difficulties as they tried head to the Kent coast in the early hours on Sunday.
The French Navy’s support vessel Rhône was dispatched to pick up the stranded group. The ship brought them into the port at Calais where they were taken into the care of medics to be checked over.
The latest arrivals are the first to make the perilous journey in almost a week after wet weather and choppy conditions at sea put a temporary pause on Channel crossings.
There have been 4,492 people rescued in 97 boats in October, with Sunday’s arrivals bringing the total number of migrants coming from northern France since the start of the year to more than 37,400 in in 921 boats compared with 28,500 in the whole of 2021. In 2020, 8,410 migrants made the crossing.
Ms Elphicke, has described the situation as ‘truly shocking’.
She said: ‘Alongside the brazen criminality of the people smugglers, it beggars belief that there is a free public bus from the migrant camps to the beach departure points.
‘It’s little wonder we are seeing record breaking arrivals coming through the illegal small boats crossings route.’
The MoD has aimed to prevent all uncontrolled landings since it took command of British operations in the Channel in April.
Sunday’s landings are among only a handful to have got through since then.
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