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Essex lorry deaths: Maurice Robinson 'blind to people-smuggling risks' Published image captionMaurice Robinson admitted manslaughter of the 39 Vietnamese migrants A lorry driver who found the bodies of 39 migrants in his trailer was "blind to the risks" of people smuggling, a sentencing hearing was told. Maurice Robinson, 26, opened the sealed container in Grays in Essex in October 2019 and found the Vietnamese migrants had all suffocated. His barrister told the Old Bailey that Robinson, from County Armagh, "is horrified by what he saw". He admitted manslaughter and involvement in the traffic...

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