TWO suspected illegal immigrants were grabbed by two burly builders after they leapt from the back of a lorry which was delivering kitchens from Italy to Leigh yesterday morning.
The lorry driver yelled “danger, danger!” as the two men, believed to be from Iraq, tried to make a run for it in London Road, at the junction with Leigh Hall Road.
No-nonsense builders Justin Slowley, 47, and Andy Collins, 28, who work for Southend-based JLS Building Services, are fitting out new flats there, sprung into action
They managed to get hold of the suspects and detain them until armed police screeched up at the scene shortly after 10am.
Mr Collins said: “When the driver went to the back he was shouting ‘danger, danger!’ so we rushed over thinking one of the units was falling.
"Instead two men were pushing their way out so I grabbed one of them and put him in a choke hold while Justin grabbed the other bloke.
"We did feel sorry for them, they said they came from Iraq and must have been scared for their lives but they should have done things through the proper channels.
“There was a rock in the lorry which they could have used or a bottle of urine they could have thrown on us. We didn’t think, we acted.”
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