Channel migrant deaths: Boat pilot beaten and threatened, jury told

(BBC) A teenager accused of killing four migrants while crossing the Channel has told his trial he was beaten and threatened by people smugglers.

Ibrahima Bah, 19, from Senegal, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of manslaughter.

At least four people drowned when the inflatable boat he was said to be piloting deflated in December 2022.

Bah told Canterbury Crown Court he was recruited after helping steer a boat from Africa to Europe.

Through an interpreter, he told the jury it had been his dream to leave Senegal and come to the United Kingdom.

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