MORE than half a dozen suspected illegal immigrants have been taken into custody - after a police operation at a South Marston depot. 

Officers were sent to the DHL depot on the South Marston Industrial Estate just after 8am this morning. 

Police arrested seven people on suspicion of entering the UK illegally. 

Another man was arrested on suspicion of aiding illegal entry into the UK. 

A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said: "All eight are currently in custody."

Those suspected of entering the UK illegally are yet to be handed over to Home Office officials, police said.