Three men found guilty after people smuggling probe sparked by woman found in car glove box Three men have been found guilty following a sting into a UK-based people smuggling gang - launched after a woman was found crammed inside a car glove box.
A month after the first smuggling attempt was caught, Curtis's wife Emily Etherington was stopped by Border Force officers after they found she was hiding another woman in the dashboard of her vehicle - prompting a Home Office investigation into the gang.
Redar Curtis, 30, Jozef Kadet, 25, and Khales Akram Jabar, 44, were each found guilty of assisting unlawful immigration at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court this week.
The trio were arrested after a Home Office investigation and were found to have been part of an organised smuggling network hiding people in customised vehicles between 2022 and 2024.
The probe began after a Vietnamese woman was found hiding in a cramped compartment concealed behind the dashboard of a vehicle returning from France in June 2022.