Illegal immigrants have stowed away on a lorry travelling to Bradford from the Continent for the second time in a month.

A family is believed to have travelled for 16 hours aboard a lorry belonging to Wibsey haulier WW Potter International from Brussels.

The group slit the curtain on the lorry and escaped when the driver made his first stop after Dover at services in Lincolnshire shortly before 6pm yesterday.

It is the second time the haulier has been used by illegal immigrants in little more than a month.

Driver Andy Dunne said he returned to his vehicle after stopping at Markham Moor services last night to find a knife had been used to cut the curtain on the lorry which was carrying rolls of fabric.

Adult and children's clothing, cigarette butts, a knife and bottles of urine were found inside the lorry, although the load was undamaged.

He believed the group had climbed aboard at a lorry park in Brussels the night before in what appeared to be an organised operation.

Transport manager Adrian Bannon said last month another group had jumped out at the same location after climbing through a panel in the roof of a lorry..

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