A British woman returning from France found a migrant in her Fiat Panda.
Sue Taber spotted him curled up behind the driver’s seat as she let her two dogs out of the car. The man, who is 5ft 8in and believed to be aged between 18 and 20 “unfolded” himself and jumped out of the car shouting: “I’m an orphan, I’m an orphan”.
Ms Taber had been listening to a French radio station’s phone-in about the migrants as she drove home from the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone. She said she believes the man stowed himself in her car while she was having the passports of her two dogs checked in Calais. She had felt something kick against her seat during the journey but believed it to be one of the dogs.
On discovering the man, Ms Taber said she told him “in no uncertain terms” to “get lost” and went to phone police. The man was arrested and transferred to the Home Office Immigration Enforcement unit.
Kent police said that officers had responded to reports of a suspected illegal immigrant in a car in Shepherdswell.