The BMW driving 'Godfather of people traffickers' who made £100k-a-week smuggling small boat migrants to Britain before claiming asylum here has spent TWO YEARS living in a taxpayer subsidised council flat
By JAMES FIELDING IN LEICESTER AND PETER ALLEN IN CALAIS
Published: 18:12 EDT, 11 July 2026 | Updated: 04:43 EDT, 12 July 2026
A notorious people smuggler who raked in £100,000-a-week shipping illegal migrants into Britain has been living in a taxpayer-subsidised council flat in Britain.
Twana Jamal, 46, ran a criminal network which was so successful at getting people across the Channel and into the UK that he became known as the 'Godfather of traffickers' and 'King of the Calais Jungle'.
Jamal was finally jailed in France for five years after he smuggled thousands of migrants into the UK – earning a fortune that ran into the millions – then sneaked into Britain himself on his release from prison.
Now the Daily Mail has learned that the Iraqi Kurd gangster kingpin – who once boasted he could get anyone into Britain – has been living in a publicly-owned one-bedroom council flat in Leicester for the past two years.
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