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Missing stowaway `faked jump into sea'

Wednesday 21 June 1995 23:02 BST
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A Chinese stowaway who sparked a major air and sea search on Tuesday when he faked a jump overboard in the Channel, was found ashore after the vessel docked. Ki Luo Hua, 24, was arrested after he climbed down a mooring rope of the 50,000 ton container ship Shenzhen Bay when it docked at Southampton, Hampshire.

n Nineteen suspected illegal immigrants were picked up by police in Kent yesterday after they were spotted being dropped off by a lorry near Detling airfield, Maidstone.

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