Martin Heath
BBC News, Essex
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The couple were originally fined £1,500
A couple who were fined £1,500 after they reported a migrant had clung to a bike rack on their motorhome have been told the penalty has been cancelled.
The Home Office had ordered Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge in Essex, to pay the fine for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” in the vehicle as they crossed the English Channel.
The couple originally highlighted the case on BBC Three Counties Radio, and Mrs Fenton said she was “ecstatic” about the Home Office’s change of heart.
“How many more people are going to get caught out exactly the same?” she said.
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The couple said the stowaway was found under a bicycle rack cover
Mr Fenton, 57, had boarded Le Shuttle from Calais to Folkestone in
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