A PILOT and two other men today admitted their part in a conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country by light aircraft.

Wyatt Anderson twice landed a six-seater Piper Cherokee containing Turkish immigrants at Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, on July 2 last year.

Anderson, 46, of London Road, Camberley, Surrey, Mensur Hassan, 32, of Daubney Road, Clapton, North London, and Anthony Davies, 41, of Chalfont Road, Edmonton, North London, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry.

They will be sentenced after the trial starting next Tuesday at Maidstone Crown Court of Davies’s wife Jeanette, 40, Isa Baskaya, 45, of Bemerton Street, Islington, North London, and Indat Oztas, 29, of Carleton Road, Hornsey, North London.

Peter Wilcock, for Anderson, applied for a pre-sentence report on his client, but it was refused by Judge Michael Neligan, who said: “It doesn’t seem to me to be a case for the special expertise of the probation service.”

Mr Wilcock told the judge: “He has suffered from depression. There are various other matters which would become relevant. I am well aware of the inevitable sentence.”