{"id":31566,"date":"2026-04-11T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31566"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:10:42","slug":"uk-crime-agency-charges-sudanese-man-after-four-die-in-channel-boat-crossing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uk-crime-agency-charges-sudanese-man-after-four-die-in-channel-boat-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"UK crime agency charges Sudanese man after four die in Channel boat crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom&#8217;s (UK) National Crime Agency (NCA) said this Saturday it had charged a 27-year-old Sudanese man with endangering life after four \u200cmigrants died while attempting to cross the Channel from France to Britain on a small boat this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NCA, which investigates organised crime, said it charged Alnour Mohamed Ali, who \u2060was arrested on Friday, &#8220;with endangering another during a journey by sea&#8221; to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Thursday off the coast of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, near Calais in northern France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The four victims, two women and two men whose identities have not yet been released, died when they tried to board a water \u200ctaxi \u2060which smugglers are increasingly using to avoid police, the NCA said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It said 38 people were returned to the French shore after the incident, but 74 migrants \u2060travelled to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ali, who allegedly piloted the boat, is due to appear at Folkestone Magistrates Court on Saturday, \u2060the NCA added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of people crossing the Channel to seek asylum in Britain have made \u2060illegal immigration a hot issue for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his predecessors in Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-31566","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"UK's NCA said this Saturday it had charged a 27-year-old Sudanese man","published_date":"2026-04-11 17:01:23","news_description":"UK's NCA said this Saturday it had charged a 27-year-old Sudanese man","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31567,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31566\/revisions\/31567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}