Brit people smuggler posts snaps of lavish holidays and boasts about flash lifestyle after dodging jail in France

A BRITISH people smuggler who dodged jail in France is boasting online about his flash lifestyle. Pics posted by Andrew Walsh, who got a suspended sentence, show him enjoying expensive ­holidays, wearing designer gear and in the gym and a hot tub. British people smuggler Andrew Walsh, who dodged jail in France, is boasting online about his flash lifestyle Credit: Facebook Walsh, photographed in a jacuzzi on Tiktok, was found guilty in May of putting 11 Syrian and Pakistani migrants at serious risk Credit: Tiktok Andy Walsh Walsh, 38, and John Frizell, 46, were found guilty in May of putting 11 Syrian and Pakistani migrants at serious risk. They were seized, along with a British woman, by French police in the fishing port of Saint-Valery-en-Caux. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Five migrants, including a girl of three, were on board a 26ft pleasure craft with Frizell. Walsh, of Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, was on the dockside. Six other people identified close to the port were believed to be heading to the boat having paid €1,000 (£867) each for the crossing, Rouen criminal court in Normandy heard. The pair treated their passengers “like objects, like merchandise with a price tag”, the court was told. Prosecutor Sébastien Gallois said: “Law enforcement arrested three British smugglers, two men and a woman, who came in a pleasure boat to pick up eleven migrants of Syrian or Pakistani nationality.” The group set sail for France on April 8 — the same day that four UK-bound migrants drowned as they tried to board an overcrowded dinghy off the coast of Boulogne. Most read in The Sun Frizell, of Glasgow, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.Walsh got a 15-month suspended sentence. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, remains under French judicial supervision. Walsh is now back home in Hebburn, The Sun understands. Last December, the former soldier posted a series of Instagram snaps accompanied by motivational lyrics about a “man who has been shattered by life and chose to rebuild himself”.