Colchester lorry driver Simon Morgan unknowingly carried some extra cargo into Britain yesterday after two Kosovan refugees sneaked onto his HGV.

Mr Morgan, 34, of Rowallan Close, realised someone was inside his lorry when they banged on the headboard. After contacting police on his mobile phone, he met officers at a service station, where the stowaways were arrested.

Mr Morgan had loaded with non-hazardous chemicals in Dortmund, Germany, and driven back through Belgium, checking his lorry on several occasions.

Boarding a ferry at Calais, he crossed the channel to Dover, where police often check lorries with a sniffer dog. This time I didn't get stopped and just drove through," he said.

Heading for Warrington, after a while he heard the banging.

"I've been told stories about people sneaking into lorries, but I've been driving for ten years and it's never happened to me before," he said.

Realising he had stowaways on board he called the police.

A police escort met Mr Morgan, who works for Peter Squirrell Transport in Bury St Edmunds, and took him to a rendezvous at an M6 service station.

"There were five police cars waiting, and when they opened the back of the lorry there were two men sat here," he said.

The pair, in their late teens, told officers they were from Kosovo and were arrested.

Refugees often get on Eastern Bloc lorries and swap to UK vehicles while they are on the cross-channel ferry, and Mr Morgan is convinced that is what the pair did.

Police said they would be taking no further action against Mr Morgan.

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