Jim
Ringleader
Received this email today, from a read only member..
My comments are that everyone is responsible for their own security. You cannot palm this responsibility off to anyone else. After stopping anywhere, it's your responsibility and in your best interest, to ensure you've not picked anyone up.
My comments are that everyone is responsible for their own security. You cannot palm this responsibility off to anyone else. After stopping anywhere, it's your responsibility and in your best interest, to ensure you've not picked anyone up.
Warning to motor homers travelling in and leaving Calais
On the 27th of February we parked for about 1hour and a half on the Cite Europe motorhome park. Getting back to the van our kitchen window had been broken and the sunsunscreen damaged . We should have reported this but sadly we didn’t. We left at about 12.30 pm, and went to park in a safe place for the night. We got up the next morning at 6.30 am and went to the tunnel which we were booked on to depart at 10.18. Luckily we managed an earlier crossing leaving at just after nine. We went through all the checks.. Border control dusted the steering wheel, came into the van , looked in the wardrobe, the shower area, and quickly under the side seat. They did not look into our garage which is at the back of the van.
After disembarking we went straight to South Mimms Service station on the M25. As we parked there were 2 policemen sitting in their car. We went to order food and one of the policemen came to us and asked us to return to our van. They had seen a young man leaving our van and apprehended him. Our alarm had gone off, twice.
They asked us to check if anything was missing or disturbed. Yes our warning triangles had been moved.
Here the story beggars belief !!!! The small slim immigrant guy said he had travelled from Calais in our van !
We have a small access door inside our van that access to the garage can be made . It appears he bedded himself down at one end of the garage covering himself with clothes from the rack in there,Helping himself to a bottle of wine and weeing in a milk carton which he had emptied.
He had been in there over 22hours.Original access gained by the kitchen window he had broken .
We obviously were totally shocked that this could have happened ,causing us much stress as a result.
BUT
How come he was not picked up by Border force in Calais ?????If the garage has been checked he would have been found.
If those policemen had not been parked by our van he would have got into the country and we would have been none the wiser .!!!!!!!!
My warning to you is to check every access point and hiding place on your van., before leaving Calais.And ensure border force does its Job .!!!!!!? And please tell others to do the same.