Two years in prison for migrant boat captain

A 51-year-old man was on Wednesday sentenced to two years in prison after having been found guilty of captaining a boat full of irregular migrants which arrived in Cyprus in April.

The man had been found guilty of entering Cyprus illegally and assisting other third country nationals in illegally entering the country.

The boat he captained had a total of 25 people on board and arrived as part of a large-scale arrival of irregular migrants on the island who had set off from Lebanon...