Pictures show migrants brought ashore by RNLI in Gosport

Pictures have captured the moment migrants were controversially brought ashore in Gosport on Sunday night.

The 149 migrants arrived in Portsmouth Harbour on two RNLI boats before being placed on coaches and taken to Kent to be processed.

The asylum seekers had left France early on Sunday morning on a mega-dinghy and arrived at Fort Blockhouse at 10.20pm

Two-and-a-half hours later a convoy of coaches and police cars set off for Kent.

A huge police presence was seen in Gosport with many officers gathering at Fareham Reach industrial estate. Haslar Bridge was closed and blocked by police, while a dispersal order was brought in for the whole town.

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