A 19-year-old man has been charged with facilitating illegal entry into the UK in connection with the sinking of an inflatable boat in the English channel during which four people drowned.
Kent police announced on Sunday that as part of an investigation into the incident, Ibrahima Bah, of no fixed address had been charged with”knowingly facilitating the attempted arrival in the United Kingdom of people he knew or had reasonable cause to believe were asylum seekers.”
Police say that they are still working to establish the identity of those who died in the early hours of Dec. 11 as they attempted to cross the 20-mile-wide English channel in the dark during the first cold snap of winter….