Crowded sampan 'like the Titanic'

A SAMPAN overloaded with 19 illegal immigrants was so unseaworthy it reminded a High Court judge of the Titanic.

Mr Justice Saied sentenced Ngan Sai-fai, 21, and Lai Sun-wai, 22, to five years' jail each after they pleaded guilty to being crewmen on board a sampan which brought 19 young men to Hong Kong.

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