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";s:4:"text";s:26422:"[68], A second man, from County Armagh, also appeared at the Central Criminal Court on 13 December and pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit human trafficking offences between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019, by arranging or facilitating the travel of other people with a view to exploitation. Essex lorry deaths: Men jailed for killing 39 migrants in trailer 22 January 2021 Essex lorry deaths The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea. [75] On 8 April 2021, his extradition was approved. [23], On 3 November, Vietnamese officials provided DNA samples from people in Ngh An Province and essential documents to help identify the deceased. [4], The investigation is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Stoten, a Senior Investigating Officer within the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. Shortly after 01:00, having picked up the trailer, Robinson got a SnapChat message from Ronan Hughes, his 40-year-old haulage boss from County Monaghan, Ireland. Essex lorry deaths: Trafficking ringleader jailed for 15 years after 39 died from suffocation and hyperthermia, The 39 people whose bodies were discovered in a lorry in Grays, Essex, in October 2019. [69] The counsel for the state pointed out that the 39 people died after the trailer had entered the UK and that it was nonsensical to suggest their deaths had occurred anywhere other than the UK. During the voyage, the temperature rose from the high 20s all the way up to 38.5C (101F), by which point the air was too toxic for human life. [60], On 17 March 2021 a 23-year-old haulier from Caledon, County Tyrone was charged with conspiracy to assist illegal immigration in connection with the deaths. [97], After reports that Vietnamese citizens might be among the deceased, Nguyn Xun Phc, Vietnamese Prime Minister, ordered the country's Public Security Ministry and the authorities of its two central provinces of H Tnh and Ngh An, where a number of missing citizens come from, to launch a probe into the case. Pic: Essex Police, Police and forensics at the crime scene in Grays, Essex, in October 2019, Lorry driver Maurice Robinson is seen leaving Purfleet port in Essex after collecting the trailer containing the migrants, Gheorghe Nica pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of the migrants. The victims were 28 men, eight women and three children, two of them aged 15. [35][39] He appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on 28 October, when the Crown Prosecution Service alleged that he was part of a "global ring" of people smugglers. [62], In June 2021 Italian authorities and the National Crime Agency arrested a 27-year-old Romanian man near Milan in connection with the deaths, charging him with conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence. Later, before the trailer was loaded on to a ferry, the driver had opened the doors and told them to "keep quiet all the time" and stand in the middle of the trailer and hold on to each other. A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted in a Belgian court of being the ringleader in the trafficking of 39 migrants whose bodies were found inside a lorry in the UK. Other people involved in the case were jailed for between one and 10 years. [34] British police had also searched two properties in Northern Ireland. In the days after the news broke, Waterglade Industrial Estate was swarmed by police, forensics and press. He said the victims died in an "unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals". [45], On 1 November, a man from Northern Ireland was re-arrested in the holding cells of the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin following the execution of a European Arrest Warrant issued in the UK. [76], On 21 December 2020, verdicts were returned on Romanian ringleader Gheorghe Nica of Basildon and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison from County Down. A 25-year-old lorry driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested, Essex Police says. Essex lorry deaths: CCTV shows arrival at industrial park A spokesman for the Bulgarian foreign affairs ministry said the truck was registered in the country under the name of a company. This became Witness X who shared his fears and referred to the smugglers as "the mafia" - a testimony that revealed the drivers had known about their passengers. One of those was Nguyen Thi Hong, whose husband Bui Phan Thang died in the lorry. [59] Authorities said a series of simultaneous early morning raids had taken place in both countries on 25 May 2020. [80], Three other men were sentenced for conspiring to facilitate unlawful immigration: lorry driver Christopher Kennedy was sentenced to seven years, pickup driver Valentin Calota was sentenced to four and a half years and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga was sentenced to three years. [13] The lorry was in Eastern Avenue at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex. She said: "We worked on the land and it was hard. It came to light that the 31 men and eight women - including a 15-year-old child - had died in sweltering temperatures in the lorry's sealed container as they were shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet. Some wanted to work in nail salons while one of the 15-year-olds who died said he would find work in an illegal cannabis farm. [79], On 22 January 2021 the culprits were jailed for the incident. All you have to do is to click here and type in your email address. [87], Channel 4 postponed a television series called Smuggled that was due to air on 28 October, in which British citizens try to smuggle themselves from mainland Europe to the UK. At the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter. GPS data showed it had previously travelled to Dunkirk and Lille in France and Bruges in Belgium. He was charged with unrelated offences. He was accused of "conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-EU person". [54] On 20 April 2020 a 40-year-old man was arrested in the Republic of Ireland in connection with the deaths. [18], On 11 February 2020, Essex Police said that post-mortems gave a combination of hypoxia and hyperthermia as the provisional causes of death. [19][20], Initially the police said the deceased were all Chinese nationals and the Chinese embassy in London sent officials to assist with identification. [4] Other refugee groups have expressed concern that the border confusion surrounding Brexit will give more opportunities for groups to commit similar crimes. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead. A restaurant worker in the industrial estate, who did not want to be named, said: "There's a lot of police and forensics. They are believed to have been either victims of human trafficking (for example, as forced labourers), migrants who paid smugglers to move them to the United Kingdom, or both. [82], UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a tweet that he was "appalled" at the incident, giving his thoughts to the victims and their families, adding that the Home Office was working alongside Essex Police on the case. Despite initially protesting his innocence in police interviews, officers quickly discovered Robinson was actually part of an enormous lucrative people-smuggling ring - led by kingpin Ronan Hughes. 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"Maybe going to die in the container, can't breathe any more dear," read a text message typed by Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh. Essex lorry deaths: Trafficking ringleader jailed for 15 years after 39 died from suffocation and hyperthermia Eight women and 31 men were sealed inside the vehicle for at least 12 hours as . The trailer had been shipped from the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet, Essex, UK, and the lorry cab and its driver are believed to have originated from Northern Ireland. RM GA0448 - A police officer at the scene of a shooting at Rayleigh railway station in Essex, after a member of the public was shot armed robbers today. They're not breathing.". A 25-year-old Vietnamese woman is believed to be among the dead after her family received a haunting series of text messages. [100] The deputy chair of the Can Lc District, had reportedly been told by officials that the Vietnamese government offered to only pay the costs of bringing the bodies "home from the airport" and would pay in advance on behalf of the families only if the families would later pay them back. Police ensured they were taken to the mortuary, and then had their post-mortem examinations carried out, together. Pham Thi Tra My, a 26-year-old woman from Ha Tinh, Nguyen Dinh Luong, a 20-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Nguyen Huy Phong, a 35-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Vo Nhan Du, a 19-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Tran Manh Hung, a 37-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Tran Khanh Tho, a 18-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Vo Van Linh, a 25-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Nguyen Van Nhan, a 33-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Bui Phan Thang, a 37-year-old man from Ha Tinh, Nguyen Huy Hung, a 15-year-old boy from Ha Tinh, Tran Thi Tho, a 21-year-old woman from Nghe An, Bui Thi Nhung, a 19-year-old woman from Nghe An, Vo Ngoc Nam, a 28-year-old man from Nghe An, Nguyen Dinh Tu, a 26-year-old man from Nghe An, Le Van Ha, a 30-year-old man from Nghe An, Tran Thi Ngoc, a 19-year-old woman from Nghe An, Nguyen Van Hung, a 33-year-old man from Nghe An, Hoang Van Tiep, a 18-year-old man from Nghe An, Cao Tien Dung, a 37-year-old man from Nghe An, Cao Huy Thanh, a 37-year-old man from Nghe An, Tran Thi Mai Nhung, a 18-year-old woman from Nghe An, Nguyen Minh Quang, a 20-year-old man from Nghe An, Le Ngoc Thanh, a 44-year-old man from Dien Chau, Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh, a 28-year-old woman from Nghe An, Hoang Van Hoi, a 24-year-old man from Nghe An, Nguyen Tho Tuan, a 25-year-old man from Nghe An, Dang Huu Tuyen, a 22-year-old man from Nghe An, Nguyen Trong Thai, a 26-year-old man from Nghe An, Nguyen Van Hiep, a 24-year-old man from Nghe An, Nguyen Thi Van, a 35-year-old woman from Nghe An, Tran Hai Loc, a 35-year-old man from Nghe An, Duong Minh Tuan, a 27-year-old man from Quang Binh, Nguyen Ngoc Ha, a 32-year-old man from Quang Binh, Nguyen Tien Dung, a 33-year-old man from Quang, Binh, Phan Thi Thanh, a 41-year-old woman from Hai Phong, Nguyen Ba Vu Hung, a 34-year-old man from Thua Thien-Hue, Dinh Dinh Thai Quyen, a 18-year-old man from Hai Phong, Tran Ngoc Hieu, a 17-year-old boy from Hai Duong, Dinh Dinh Binh, a 15-year-old boy from Hai Phong. But he couldn't find work in Germany. Twelve days before 39 Vietnamese people were found dead in the container, Marie Andrews was at her mobile home in Orsett, a village about four miles (6km) from Grays. Police later moved the bodies to a mortuary at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford for post-mortems to be carried out. Sentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: "I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.". Hughes, an Irish haulier, alternated between legitimate shipments of waffles, soft drinks and wine from warehouses across Europe and illegal smuggling of alcohol, cigarettes and people. [44] On 20 April 2020, one of the brothers, a 40-year-old man, was arrested by Garda in the Republic of Ireland on a European Arrest Warrant and charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and immigration offences. "There is no VIP service - these are the lies people are told to be exploited," he said. He loved football very much and he loved UK teams as well as the Champions League. (From left) Gheorghe Nica and Ronan Hughes were jailed for a total of 47 years, while Eamonn Harrison was sentenced to 18 years. He waited for 15 minutes and then dialled 999, telling the operator: "There's immigrants in the back. He called us all the time. On 23 November, it was reported that one of the teenagers later found dead had gone missing from an asylum centre in the Netherlands. On 23 October 2019, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese people 31 men and 8 women were found in the trailer of an articulated refrigerator lorry in Grays, Essex, United Kingdom. ". The red and white lorry is pictured at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, surrounded by forensic teams. Parents of one of the youngest victims, Nguyen Huy Hung, who was 15 when he died, paid tribute to their peaceful and smart son. It then travelled through the Republic of Ireland to Dublin, and from there by sea to Holyhead in Wales, from where it was driven to Purfleet. Thwarted in France, he said, the smugglers were possibly attempting to "do two loads in one". [33], On 24 October, the Evening Standard speculated that the trailer had travelled from the Netherlands before its departure from Belgium. "He didn't go straight to the UK, he went to Germany first. I cannot take care of you. It was a discovery that would hurl Essex into the international spotlight as police, press and forensics descended on the industrial estate that had become the scene of a devastating mass grave. 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Robinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. "We have arrested the lorry driver in connection with the incident who remains in police custody as our enquiries continue. Investigations revealed that they suffocated to death in 38 degrees in the refrigerated container, where all the oxygen was sucked out. Every person in that trailer had left behind a family. When Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999. He always dreamed of going to the UK and he tried very hard to study at school as well as learning English for that purpose. [1][4], The lorry cab and the trailer arrived separately in Purfleet, Essex, from where they travelled together the short distance to Grays. Families were worried they could still be left in debt, despite over 84,000 having been raised to help them. A number of the migrants discovered in France were later found dead inside the container in Essex. [51] On 16 March 2020, a man from Birmingham was charged with an immigration offence related to the incident. They died excruciatingly slow deaths, the judge said, of asphyxia and hyperthermia, or overheating. Both were found guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to transport and assist illegal migrants. "Many people around here go overseas to find work. He was paid 25,000 in cash to pick up the container and had been instructed by Hughes to open the lorry trailer to give the migrants air shortly after collecting it from Purfleet docks, but he found they were all dead. ", Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Each passenger paid smugglers between 10,000 and 13,000 to be brought from northern France. Nguyen Van Hung's mother, Pham Thi Lan, agreed. "He said he would not go in a container lorry and that it needed to be safe, even though the truck option was a lot cheaper.". "We are in the process of identifying the victims, however I anticipate that this could be a lengthy process. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Sixteen days after police officers found the pile of bodies in the back of the refrigerated lorry. He added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called "Fong", who was based in London. "No-one would choose to travel in such a dangerous way," she said. Robinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October. He persuaded them, saying he would only have to pay the 10,500 fee due to the people smugglers after he had arrived in the UK. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? Maurice Robinson, 26, the lorry driver from Northern Ireland who collected the container containing the 39 people from the port in Essex in October 2019, and also pleaded guilty last year to . [56] Bail was refused on 30 April. [86], Campaigners against human trafficking organised a vigil to take place outside the Home Office on 24 October in solidarity with the casualties. It's one of the many ways that you can read the news that matters to you from EssexLive. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Have a good life. The lorry cab, a Scania R-series, was registered in Bulgaria in 2017 in the name of a company owned by an Irish citizen, but had not returned there since, according to the Bulgarian foreign ministry. On the morning of October 23, 2019, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children were discovered dead in the back of a lorry in Grays, Essex. "I could visibly see numerous half-naked bodies in the back of the trailer, lying on the trailer floor motionless," he said. [85], Extra UK immigration officers are to be deployed at the Belgian border port of Zeebrugge and more Border Force staff will operate at Purfleet as a result of the incident. All 39 people who were found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex have now been named. What led to her and 38 fellow Vietnamese nationals dying in the dark and sweltering heat of an airtight container? He was one of the organisers of the smuggling operation but denied involvement in the lethal trip. In the weeks before the tragic journey, the gang, led by Hughes and Nica, organised at least two other journeys smuggling Vietnamese migrants packed into the back of lorries into the UK. As they began to die inside the dark container, where the temperature had risen to 38.5C, they recorded farewell messages for their relatives. [46][47] In February 2020, the man was given leave to appeal the extradition judgment. [1], Soon after the police arrived, Eastern Avenue was closed and not fully re-opened until 25 October. From this point onwards, a sensor inside the trailer tells its own story of a relentless rise in temperature. Tiep's mother, Hoang Thi Ai, told the BBC why they had changed their minds. He said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019. Detectives believe the vehicle was travelling from Bulgaria and entered the UK three days ago via Holyhead in north Wales, one of the main port for ferries from Ireland. He was immediately released having already served his sentence in custody. The trial exposed for the first time a complex and lucrative operation which has for years illegally brought Vietnamese people into the UK. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk, Lorry container 'became a tomb' for 39 victims, Essex lorry deaths driver admits manslaughter. Many of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK. "My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.". A port worker who drove the trailer off the ship later reported noticing a pungent smell that was "similar to waste". Ten teenagers including two 15-year-old boys were among the 39 people found dead in a lorry . Hughes, of County Monaghan, Ireland, and Robinson, who took the initial 999 call had previously admitted manslaughter. "I can't breathe," he said. Two ringleaders receive sentences of 27 and 20 years after 39 Vietnamese people suffocated in container. Following a 10-week trial in 2020, Northern Irish lorry driver Eamonn Harrison was found guilty of 39 counts of manslaughter, while Romanian organiser Gheorghe Nica was convicted of the same charges. They had been promised safe passage to our shores and they were lied to. He was returned to the UK where he was charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. [101], An international fundraiser through GoFundMe raised money to help cover the potential additional debts that the families might incur bringing home the deceased. However the involvement of the lorry drivers offered them no protection when too many people were packed into one container. On 11 October, about 15 migrants made the journey across the channel, though in a different trailer to the one in which the 39 died. 48 year old Romanian national Marius Mihai Draghici is believed to be part of the conspiracy to smuggle the migrants into the UK. I appreciate this cordon is going to disrupt the activity of local businesses in the area and we will work to ensure that disruption is kept as short as possible. "He told me that he would only go on a 'VIP package', in a private car," she said. [5][6][7][8] The trailer was loaded onto the freight ferry Clementine in Zeebrugge in Belgium. [67], On 15 May 2020 Ronan Hughes, the man accused of being a ringleader, attended the High Court in Ireland by video link from Cloverhill Prison in Dublin. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [91], In an editorial headlined, "The UK must bear responsibility," the Global Times, a state-run newspaper, said that the responsibility for the deaths lay with Britain and other European countries. In a tweet published shortly before 10.30am Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "Im appalled by this tragic incident in Essex. I cannot breathe. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison. One of them, a man known to the court only as Witness X, gave evidence at the Old Bailey. I am sorry. [81], In January 2022, 19 people were convicted in Belgium of being part of a people smuggling ring connected to the deaths, including the ringleader Vo Van Hong who was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Read about our approach to external linking. It was a discovery that would hurl Essex into the international spotlight as police, press and forensics descended on the industrial estate that had become the scene of a devastating mass grave. The bodies were packed so tightly together, he said, that he could only check "the bodies I could reach". Something went wrong, please try again later. Smugglers often force migrants to work off the cost of the trip in slave-like conditions. It was here that a number of people were seen being delivered by taxi to an agricultural shed, before later clambering into a lorry. Chilling records of his call revealed his unnervingly calm revelation of the dead bodies to the ambulance service. "There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container," the judge said. He too was seeking a better life when, in February last year, he paid up to 20,000 to a trafficker in Vietnam for a visa and a place on a business studies course in Poland. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. RM 2B4WWCW - Southend, Essex, UK. Witness X asked that friend for help. So he did.". He saw what was inside and stepped back before closing the door. Ms Andrews described ringing police again after seeing the news of the 39 deaths on social media. On 23 October 2019 we were called to a scene that no officer could ever have prepared for. He also denied conspiring to assist unlawful immigration over the same period, but did not enter any plea regarding 39 charges of manslaughter with which he was charged. The victims died from suffocation and hyperthermia in the confined space of the truck, which arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium. 42 Essex Lorry Deaths Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 42 Essex Lorry Deaths Premium High Res Photos Browse 42 essex lorry deaths stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. a recent documentary into the deaths revealed. Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh, 28, from Nghe An, wrote a text message that was never sent, The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK, Hoang Van Tiep's parents Hoang Thi Ai (left) and Hoang Van Lanh said their son had paid for a "VIP service", They are callous and they are dangerous and they are out to exploit these people. 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