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Four people smugglers who killed 39 Vietnamese migrants by bringing them into the UK in a sealed lorry have been jailed for a total of 78 years.    Drivers Eamonn Harrison, 23, and Maurice Robinson, 26 - together with Romanian fixer Gheorghe Nica, 43 - were paid by Ronan Hughes, 40, to ferry non-EU citizens into the UK.  Hughes headed the million-pound people-smuggling ring which used death trap lorries on multiple occasions - charging his human cargo up to £14,000 a head for a 'VIP' service. But the journey in October 2019 went horribly wrong when driver Robinson opened the back of his ...

UK Jails People Smugglers Over Vietnamese Migrant Deaths 01/22/21 AT 11:12 AM A British judge on Friday handed down sentences of 27 and 20 years to the ringleaders of a people smuggling plot that led to the death of 39 Vietnamese migrants in horrific conditions in the back of a lorry. The 39 -- the youngest of whom were two 15-year-old boys -- suffocated in the container as they were being transported to what they had hoped would be new lives in Britain. The lifeless bodies of the migrants were discovered inside the sealed unit at a port near London in October, 2019. The case cast a shocking ...

A lorry driver who discovered the bodies of 39 migrants in the back of his trailer had been "blind to the risks" of people smuggling, a court has heard.

A ringleader of the ­people-smuggling gang responsible for the deaths of 39 migrants closed his eyes in the dock as his victims’ final agonising gasps were heard for the first time in court. Haulier boss Ronan Hughes joined seven other defendants at the Old Bailey in London to be sentenced for their role in the “sophisticated long-­running” operation which ended in tragedy on October 23, 2019. The 39 Vietnamese men, women and children had suffocated in sweltering temperatures in a sealed container as they were shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex. Recordings of some of their...

By Press Association 2021 Maurice Robinson, 26, leaving Purfleet port, Essex (Essex Police/PA) A lorry driver who discovered the bodies of 39 migrants in the back of his trailer had been “blind to the risks” of people smuggling, a court has heard. The Vietnamese victims, aged between 15 and 44, had suffocated in the sealed container as it was shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex in October 2019. Maurice Robinson, 26, was left in shock after he opened the doors and found they were all dead, the Old Bailey was told. His boss and...