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Ibrahima Bah: Jury discharged in migrant crossing deaths trial

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Ibrahima Bah had been on trial for three-weeks at Canterbury Crown Court

The jury in the trial of a migrant who allegedly steered a dinghy in the English Channel in which four others drowned has been discharged.

Ibrahima Bah, 19, had been on trial for three-weeks at Canterbury Crown Court.

The inflatable dinghy carrying more than 40 people across the Channel sank on 14 December 2022.

Mr Bah was on trial for four counts of manslaughter, and piloting a boat and facilitating unlawful entry to the UK.

A date for a new trial will be set later.

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