FOUR suspected illegal immigrants from Kurdistan were caught by police after a motorist spotted them waving a piece of cloth from a lorry on the M40.

Officers stopped the lorry on the motorway yesterday lunchtime and escorted it to Dreams Bed Superstore in Loudwater, High Wycombe, where they were rounded-up. The lorry was not from the superstore.

The men, all in their 20s, were questioned on the premises by police before being taken into custody.

Martin England, operations director of the store, said officers told him that the men had been celebrating on the motorway after getting through customs.

He added that one of the men was hanging out of the back of the lorry waving a flag, which was seen by a motorist who contacted the police.

Mr England said: 'People come from all over the world to buy a bed from Dreams, but they really ought to get their passports checked first.'

The men were all lying down on the floor of the lorry when police opened it up in the store's car park. They got out of the lorry peacefully. The Italian lorry driver was not arrested.

Mr England said: 'One of them was sitting on the pavement looking like he had no sleep that night.'

A police spokesman said the men are now in the care of social services.