7:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2010
By Lauren Oldershaw
THREE illegal immigrants have been arrested after being discovered working at Colchester’s North Station.
UK Border Agency Officers caught the trio as part of a planned nationwide action to tackle illegal working, sham marriages, bogus colleges and organised immigration crime.
They visited North Station and arrested three people as they arrived for overnight shifts cleaning trains.
The officers were acting on information they had received.
A 34-year-old man and 28-year-old woman from Namibia, and a 36-year-old Kenyan had all overstayed their visas.
Two of the immigrants, the man and woman from Namibia, were removed from the country last Wednesday, five days after being discovered, but the Kenyan man is still in Border Agency detention, with work continuing to deport him.
All three were agency workers not directly employed by National Express East Anglia, which operates the station.
National Express East Anglia did not want to comment on the arrests.
Cheryl Daldry, of the Border Agency’s local immigration team for Suffolk and North-East Essex, said their visits were always based on intelligence.
She added: “We appeal to the public to let us know if they have information about suspected immigration offenders.”
The Border Agency is under orders from the Government orders to crack down on illegal immigrants over the summer.
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