A British trucker filmed migrant stowaways begging him to stop as he drove down a motorway – when they realised he was heading to Holland and not the UK.

Ryan Ledgister spotted two migrants climbing in the back of his lorry when he stopped at a petrol station near the French port of Dunkirk on his way to the Netherlands.

He said he told the men the vehicle was not going back to Britain but they carried on getting in the HGV.

Both were shocked to discover he was heading to Holland rather than returning to Britain and one even began waving out of the back to try and get him to stop when he realised the truck was going in a different direction.

Mr Ledgister posted two videos on Facebook, one showing the two men climbing on board his vehicle and the other showing one man trying to get him to slow down by waving his arm out the side of the HGV.

But as he sped down the motorway the driver shouted and jeered at the two men, 'oh I told you, I told you I wasn't stopping. You're coming to Holland, you're coming to Holland'.

He filmed the two men getting on board the back of the vehicle then again in his rear view mirror as one leaned out the window to try and attract his attention.

Alongside the clips Mr Ledgister said he would not normally risk letting anyone get on board as he headed back to Britain because if he got caught he or his employers could be fined through civil penalties.

He wrote: 'I told these m****rf****** I'm not stupid enough to stop here on my way home don't waste your time and they didn't listen..... BOY YOU GON LEARRRNNN TODAY.'

And: 'I got options but stopping isn't one.'

The truck driver claims he told both men he was not heading to Britain when they got aboard as he stopped in a petrol station forecourt on the way to the Netherlands

In one of the clips the driver can be heard saying as he records: 'I told these two boys that I'm going to Holland.

'So when they get on, they best hold on tight because I'm not stopping m****rf*****.'

As the lorry headed down the motorway it passed a sign that read the town of Veurne in Belgium, which is close to the French border, is just 1,500m away.

The 'Jungle' camp, which was around 30 miles from Dunkirk, become a magnet for migrants from all over the world, and at one point housed up to 8000 men, women and children.

Since it was burnt to the ground, the French vowed to stop any kind of shantytowns springing up on the northern coast.

But after the Calais makeshift camp was closed in October 2016, many thousands of migrants in northern France dispersed across the region and moved further along the coast to smaller less well-guarded towns.

One of the stowaways waved out the back of the lorry to try and get the driver to stop because he realised the HGV was heading to Holland and not the UK

It is thought the stowaways got on the lorry near the French port of Dunkirk but did not realise they were heading towards Holland rather than the UK until the were on the outskirts of Veurne in Belgium

Some claimed asylum in France, others returned to live in Paris, while many more are looking for other ways to reach the UK.

An illegal camp close to the French port of Dunkirk was evacuated last month.

Riot police began destroying the bivouacs and other makeshift shelters after moving into a wood at Grande-Synthe at 7.30am on Thursday.

In February this year at least five migrants were shot during a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans in the French port city at a queue for food handouts.

It is estimated around 800 migrants from Africa and the Middle East still live in Calais.