Judge Dean Kershaw responded to that mitigation, saying: ‘He came here essentially as an asylum seeker.

‘Then involved himself in this, knowing what he went through and then didn’t care as to what others might be going through.’

Sentencing, the judge said: ‘The risks involved to those who are placed into vehicles, squeezed into the back and underneath of lorries – are enormous.

‘The only thing that is cared about is money.’

He told Behsodi: ‘These people were treated as commodities – but they were people, human beings.’

But the judge agreed to suspend Behsodi’s two-year prison sentence for 24 months, with probation work, including 200 hours of community service, after agreeing that jailing the household bread-winner would have a ‘huge impact’ on his wife and young daughter.

He claimed he made £350 each trip. 

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