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Fine cancelled for motorhome couple who found migrant

Martin Heath
BBC News, Essex
Nick Johnson
BBC News
BBC Mr Fenton with short dark hair wearing a grey anorak with white hood standing next to Mrs Fenton, who has long blond hair, wearing a dark-coloured anorak. She is smiling. They are in a square in Poland - a historic building is visible in the background.BBC
The couple were originally fined £1,500

A couple who were fined £1,500 after they reported a migrant had clung to a bike rack on their motorhome have been told the penalty has been cancelled.

The Home Office had ordered Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge in Essex, to pay the fine for "failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed" in the vehicle as they crossed the English Channel.

The couple originally highlighted the case on BBC Three Counties Radio, and Mrs Fenton said she was "ecstatic" about the Home Office's change of heart.

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