Immigrants quizzed over murder
Three illegal immigrants arrested for trying to flee the UK with the help of a human smuggling ring are being questioned over the murder of an Albanian man.
The men, a 19-year-old and a 31-year-old from Macedonia, and a 27-year-old Albanian, were discovered in a lorry intercepted at Dover on Thursday at 10.30pm.
They were expected to be transferred to a Sussex police station for questioning about the death of Albanian Altin Molita, 23, from Brighton. He died from multiple stab wounds after a collision involving three cars in Palmeira Square, Hove, at 1.30am on May 1.
The three were arrested at the Kent port of Dover by a French border control unit working with Scotland Yard on suspicion of attempting to be smuggled out of the UK. The lorry driver, a 31-year-old Italian man, was also arrested.
The Metropolitan Police detectives, working as part of Operation Maxim, who took part in the arrests tonight said they had also intercepted a suspected human smuggling operation.
Shortly after the Dover arrests, three Kosovan men aged 26, 28 and 30, were arrested in London on suspicion of facilitating the three men leaving the UK. All seven men are in custody at a south London police station.
Det Chief Insp Michael Hallowes, Head of Operation Maxim, said: "Operation Maxim will relentlessly pursue organised immigration crime networks operating out of London and the current operation at Dover demonstrates our commitment to working with our EU sister agencies."
A Scotland Yard spokesman added that the Dover arrests were the first to be made of people being smuggled out of the UK under Operation Maxim, which targets people involved in human trafficking and organised immigration crime in London.
He added that at 1.30pm today, Sussex Police re-arrested the three found in the truck at Dover in connection with the killing of Mr Molita.
Two men have already been charged with his murder. Flamur Topalli, 32, of Bursted Close, Brighton, and Endrit Llazari, 21, of Circus Parade, Brighton, have been remanded until May 20 when they will appear before a judge at Lewes Crown Court.
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, i just thought it was ironic that supposedly this country is trying to stop illegal immigrants and then we stop some leaving the country , never mind 
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