Sixteen illegal immigrants found in back of lorry near Oxford after one called 999

A GROUP of 16 suspected illegal immigrants found in the back of a lorry were detained after one of them called 999 from the back of the vehicle to raise the alarm, police confirmed today.

Officers were alerted by one of the 16 men who said he and the others were in the back of a wagon on the A41 in Oxfordshire near the upmarket Bicester Village shopping outlet.

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Soon after arriving police arrested the lorry driver and detained the suspected illegal immigrants.

Paramedics from the South Central Ambulance Service checked the group over before handing them over to Immigration Enforcement officers who were this morning questioning the men.

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Emergency crews were called to the lorry in a lay-by between Bicester Village and a Tesco superstore in Bicester, Oxon., at about 6.30pm yesterday.

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: "At around 6.30pm last night Thames Valley Police was called by a man who said he and a number of other men were in the back of a lorry.

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"Officers located the lorry on the A41, Wendlebury, Bicester. Sixteen men were checked over by the South Central Ambulance Service but no-one required hospital treatment.

"The men were then detained and the driver was arrested at the scene. This investigation has now been handed over to Immigration Enforcement."

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