On Wednesday 23 March, a fruit importer called for help after finding 26 migrants in the back of a refrigerated lorry carrying £25,000 worth of peppers. 24 men, one woman and one boy were crammed inside the Romanian-registered HGV.
More people, including children were found in the back of another vehicle; in total fifty-two people were discovered by police after receiving concerned calls from the drivers.
The lorry stopped at the distribution centre of Gomez Ltd in Bridge, near Canterbury, shortly before 11.30am.
The vehicle had been travelling to the UK from Spain, but it is not clear where or when the immigrants – who are of Middle Eastern or North African appearance - got into the truck.
Officers from the Kent force were called out to reports migrants had been taken through the county to the Dartford crossing on Monday.
They have now been handed into the care of Home Office immigration enforcement.
