UK immigration raid on clothes factory results in 21 arrests

November 11 2009 by Liam Clifford

An address in the news last year is again the target of a Border Agency investigation, this time however it is a different company.

Suspected illegal workers fled and others hid in cardboard boxes as UK immigration officials burst into the warehouse in Ardwick, Manchester.

The raid, yesterday morning, followed months of surveillance of the warehouse situated in Majid House, the centre of an immigration scandal earlier this year. The factory in question is not connected with the previous investigation of TNS knitwear, which is a supplier to the retail company Primark.

Border Agency staff found 65 people still in the building, 21 men and women were arrested, they are all believed to be from either Afghanistan or Pakistan and were all being questioned last night on suspicion of working illegally.

UK immigration say the investigation followed intelligence about some of the 20 businesses operating inside the warehouse; all are mostly clothing producers supplying wholesalers.

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