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Six smugglers jailed for manslaughter over worst Channel small boats disaster

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Six smugglers jailed for manslaughter over worst Channel small boats disaster. Thirty-one migrants died when their boat went down in November 2021. The trial found that the guilty men were part of two smuggling networks.

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