Mother walking son home from school saves immigrants' lives after hearing screams from lorry

A mother walking her son home from school saved the lives of seven suspected illegal immigrants after hearing screams and bangs from a refrigerated lorry.

Seven Iranian and Iraqi nationals, including two children under 16, were discovered after Tammy Harris, 34, heard the sounds coming from the HGV.

She begged the driver to look in the back of his lorry, which was carrying tonnes of chilled pears, and called police when she realised there were people inside.

Officers arrested the immigrants after they were found stowed away in the back of a lorry in the village of Badsey, Worcs., on Thursday.