Extra security for lorries means the thousands of migrants could try to stow away in private vehicles, says a report today by the Home Affairs Committee.

It will use a conventional cloth soft top, which is lighter and easier to stow away than a retractable hard top.

At the inquest held at Wallasey town hall Wirral's coroner was told that in the months before his death Mr Ayoub had been caught repeatedly attempting to illegally stow away on ships leaving Liverpool for Canada.

Only 14, he was helping to load a French timber ship at a port on the Black Sea and managed to stow away. He eventually got aboard a barge bound for Dover.

"If they do stow away in the wheel wells, then there are a number of things that can happen to them.

The boy had figured in a similar stow away incident last year.

WILLIAM Ballantyne told the New York Times why he risked his life to stow away on the R34.

How did an illegal immigrant stow away on a coach travelling from Germany to Sandhurst?