Dutch police have arrested a suspected major supplier of small boats to human traffickers in Belgium and northern France, used to smuggle people across the Channel to the United Kingdom, the European justice body Eurojust said in a statement on Thursday.

Dutch police arrested a suspected major supplier of small boats used to smuggle migrants across the Channel, which has seen more than 50 people dying attempting to reach Britain this year, Eurojust said Thursday.

Keir Starmer hails arrest of man suspected of supplying Channel boats.