This was the moment one of the women accused of smuggling an illegal man into Kent met Hillary Clinton.

Rahela Sidiqi was with a party of senior Afghan women invited to meet the then Secretary of State Clinton on July 7, 2009, at the State House.

The visit was sponsored by US AID and the US Afghan Women’s Council and the photograph was shown to the jury at Canterbury Crown Court during the trial.

Sidiqi – who denies people smuggling, is pictured with Mrs Clinton.

She is now one of three women accused of using the cover of a visit to the former “Jungle” at Calais to smuggle one of their sons into the UK.

The three had travelled to France with a Daily Telegraph reporter and photographer to highlight the plight of women in the refugee camp in October 2016.

But the jury was told they had “taken advantage of the humanitarian and journalistic” visit to try to bring the man into Britain illegally.

Writer Sophia Radice, 54, from London was working for an organisation called Women For Women Refugees when she organised the trip.

She drove the car to Calais with passengers Gulsoom Satarzai, 50, from Middlesex and Rahela Sidiqi, 52, from Welling. All three deny the smuggling charge.

Prosecutor Vivian Walters told the jury that they had helped smuggle a young Afghan man called Mohammed Ilias Wahab in the boot of Radice’s Ford Fiesta.

During the trial, the jury heard character evidence from documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Mermin and letters from Suraya Dalil, Afghani representative at the UN and ambassador to Switzerland; barrister Samantha Knights and former Labour politician Dame Joan Ruddock.

Letters from Baroness Helena Kennedy and Professor Elizabeth Silva were read on behalf of Radice, whose father who sits in the House of Lords.

The prosecutor told the jury:“Mr Ilias is Satarzai’s son. She had been granted asylum with her daughter in 2014. Her husband and two younger children were granted visas a year later.

“Repeated applications on behalf of Mr Ilias to enter the UK legally had failed.

“In the end, with the help of Sidiqi and, in turn, Radice, the prosecution suggest she resorted to helping her son to enter illegally, “ Ms Walters alleged.

The jury has retired to consider its verdicts.