Disturbing footage shows migrants screaming and crying while locked inside a people smugglers' lorry heading from the UK to France.
The group, which included children, were being taken towards Dover in a bid to enter French soil undetected - in a reversal of the usual trend of migrants being smuggled into Britain.
Videos show men and women banging the sides of the darkened trailer and begging the driver to 'open the door' so they can get out. As the migrants become increasingly distressed, one is heard saying they have been 'sent to [their] deaths'.
The footage was found on a phone belonging to a ringleader of a people smuggling ring convicted today following a major investigation by the National Crime Agency.
The operation, led by 41-year-old Algerian Azize Benaniba, involved north Africans who had come to the UK on commercial flights using legal tourist visas.
