The driver who discovered the bodies of 39 illegal immigrants in the back of his lorry had no idea so many had been loaded in, a judge has been told.
Maurice Robinson, 26, picked up the trailer after it arrived at Purfleet Docks in Essex in 2019, …
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he driver of the lorry in which 39 migrants died has admitted he was “blinded” by money when he agreed to join the deadly smuggling operation.
Maurice Robinson, 26, made the grim discovery of dead bodies in a container after he picked it up …
Desperate voice messages recorded by illegal immigrants slowly suffocating in a lorry trailer have been played to a court.
They were found on the phones of the 39 Vietnamese men, women and teenagers whose bodies were discovered in Essex in October 2019…
Two young children whose parents died holding hands as they were suffocated in the trailer of a lorry still look at their photo every day, a court has heard.
Harrowing statements were read to the Old Bailey today from families of the migrants who died …
People smuggler who drove lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants died used £100,000 he made from trafficking to refurbish his girlfriend’s hair salon, court hearsMaurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, was part of a million-pound people-smuggling ring Gang …
The father of one of the 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in the back of a lorry as they were being smuggled into Britain has said he feels nothing but pity for the men convicted of manslaughter over the deaths.
he bodies of the men and women, all…
The United Kingdom has convicted a further four people of involvement in a human smuggling operation that resulted in the deaths of dozens of Vietnamese migrants last year, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Monday.
The CPS announced the …
An “unscrupulous” gang of people-smugglers are facing years behind bars for their part in the deaths of 39 migrants.The Vietnamese victims, aged between 15 and 44, suffocated in the back of a trailer as they were shipped to Purfleet in Essex from Belgi…
In October last year, 39 Vietnamese nationals, including children, died in the back of a truck as they were smuggled across borders.
Two members of an international people-smuggling gang were convicted of manslaughter on Monday, over the deaths of 3…
By Paul Bracchi and Arthur Martin for the Daily Mail
23:17 21 Dec 2020, updated 00:10 22 Dec 2020
On the door inside the shipping container which became a death trap for the 39 Vi…
Killed by greed: Bloody handprints on the door and holes scraped in the side of trailer… the heartbreaking signs of the desperate last struggle of 39 lorry migrants who paid thousands to people traffickers to get to UKBy Paul Bracchi and Arthur Marti…
Two men have been found guilty of killing 39 migrants, whose bodies were found in the back of a lorry in Essex, UK, last year.
Four people-smugglers were convicted in total in connection with the deaths of the migrants, who were all Vietnamese.
Thei…
Members of a million-pound people-smuggling ring could be facing life behind bars for the manslaughter of 39 migrants.The Vietnamese migrants, aged between 15 and 44, were found dead in the back of a trailer in Essex on October 23 last year.
They had s…
Two people-smugglers have been found guilty of 39 counts of manslaughter for the suffocation of 39 Vietnamese people as they were being shipped in a sealed refrigeration trailer across the Channel in October last year.Two drivers were also found guilty…
Two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of 39 men, women and children from Vietnam after they were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London last year.Key points:The bodies of 39 people were found in the trailer of a truck a…