Man pleads guilty over deaths of four migrants

A man has pleaded guilty after four migrants drowned trying to cross the English Channel.

Alnour Mohamed Ali, a Sudanese national, was charged with endangering life after two men and two women died while trying to board a small boat in France on 9 April.

The 27-year-old, who admitted to having piloted the vessel, appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday.

The identities of those who died have not been released.

They drowned after being swept away by strong currents while trying to climb onto a dinghy at Equihen-Plage, near Boulogne-sur-Mer.

More than 40 people were rescued off the coast of northern France that morning.