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The court heard how the gang overloaded the small boats, sometimes cramming up to 15 times more people on board than they were designed to carry.

Prior to that, a four-month-old baby died when an overloaded migrant boat sank on the evening of 18 October.

On Wednesday, three people died after an overloaded migrant boat sank off the coast of Calais.

Two people have died after an overloaded migrant boat sank in the English Channel off the coast of Calais on Wednesday morning.

Officials said the overloaded boat carrying migrants started sinking off the coast of Wissant in northern France.