An immigrant feeling Afghanistan has been jailed after admitting entering the UK illegally by hiding under a lorry trailer.

Ipswich Crown Court heard Lajbur Ahmadzai, had twice got into the country illegally on two earlier occasions.

Ahmadzai, 37, of Berwick Road, London, who admitted attempting to enter the UK without valid entry clearance in November last year.

The court heard that Ahmadzai had fled from Afghanistan due to the Taliban taking over and had left his four children behind in the care of his parents.

Judge Emma Peters, who jailed Ahmadzai, said he had been waiting for an asylum interview with the Home Office and had illegally entered the UK from France in November to have a meeting in connection with that interview.

It was pointed out that Ahmadzai had previously illegally entered the UK in 2014 and had been forcibly removed to Italy.

He returned to the UK illegally in 2017 and in 2019 he'd asked for accommodation which resulted in the Home Office asylum meeting being arranged last year.