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In the days after the news broke, Waterglade Industrial Estate was swarmed by police, forensics and press. RM 2B4WWCW - Southend, Essex, UK. The court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead. His loss is so sudden for us. Both men had made it as far as France - Tiep, via Russia, in 2017, and his older cousin a year later. [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. Essex lorry deaths: The supposed 'VIP' journey that killed 39 people 21 December 2020 Essex lorry deaths Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh, 28, from Nghe An, wrote a text message that was never sent By. Det Ch Insp Daniel Stoten, of Essex Police, said: "They are callous and they are dangerous and they are out to exploit these people. There's approximately 25. 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 always you can unsubscribe at any time. Each of them had climbed inside the lorry - emblazoned with the words "the ultimate dream" - in search of a new life, that would actually lead them to their deaths. What she was seeing was a people-smuggling operation run by the same gang responsible for the 39 deaths. 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"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death. 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A screengrab of Maurice Robinson leaving Purfleet port. It was a shock, like anybody would be shocked to see this, particularly down a lane people would not know," Ms Andrews told the Old Bailey. He saw what was inside and stepped back before closing the door. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? [59] Thirteen people were arrested in France. "I am receiving regular updates from the Home Office & will work closely with Essex Police as we establish exactly what has happened. A restaurant worker in the industrial estate, who did not want to be named, said: "There's a lot of police and forensics. [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. They leave behind two children in Vietnam. It was never sent. 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people from China, the world's second-biggest economy, risk their lives to enter the UK? He said the victims died in an "unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals". [11] The police suspect that an Irish people-smuggling ring which has been under investigation for around a year might be involved. Read about our approach to external linking. [48], On 9 February 2020, a man was arrested in Northern Ireland on suspicion of manslaughter and facilitating unlawful immigration, and was released on bail. 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. Open up, open up., Another father, Nguyen Tho Tuan, recorded a spoken message for his own family saying: "I am sorry. Mr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half. 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. 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 . He added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called "Fong", who was based in London. [80], Two lorry drivers who were also involved in the incident were also jailed. At the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter. Eamonn Harrison, a lorry driver from Northern Ireland, who dropped the trailer off at Zebrugge, and Gheorghe Nica, the coordinator of the smuggling operation, from Romania, were found guilty of manslaughter. The red and white lorry is pictured at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, surrounded by forensic teams. [76], On 21 December 2020, verdicts were returned on Romanian ringleader Gheorghe Nica of Basildon and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison from County Down. "This time, they simply had too many people on board," he told the Old Bailey. 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. Sign up here. The judge said Nica "recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment". Valentin Calota, 38, a pickup driver from Romania, who collected migrants from the lorry drop-off spot in Essex and drove them to London during an earlier consignment, was sentenced to four and a half years. Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence. One of them was Gheorghe Nica. 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. This was when the victims were still believed to be of Chinese origin. Those inside had stripped to their underwear in the sweltering heat and tried to bash their way out of the trailer's roof. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison. By the end of the trial, the gang involved in the deadly people-smuggling operation were brought to justice. Police have begun the process of moving the bodies of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex. Ambulance crews were called to an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, just before 1.40am local time on Wednesday, October 23. We choose the most important stories of the day to include in the newsletter, including crime, court news, long reads, traffic and travel, food and drink articles and more. Numbers of Vietnamese people reported as potential human trafficking victims in the past three years. He waited 20 minutes before calling emergency services. Read about our approach to external linking. He got out of the cab, went to the rear of the trailer and opened the doors. The migrants died "excruciatingly painful" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said. [18], On 11 February 2020, Essex Police said that post-mortems gave a combination of hypoxia and hyperthermia as the provisional causes of death. The message said: "Give them air quickly don't let them out". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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 . [75] On 8 April 2021, his extradition was approved. A similar run was stopped at the mouth of the Eurotunnel at Coquelles in France on 14 October, when 20 Vietnamese migrants were discovered. She said: "We worked on the land and it was hard. Police ensured they were taken to the mortuary, and then had their post-mortem examinations carried out, together. [55] He faced 39 charges of manslaughter as well as immigration offences. A father of one of the deceased said he was given two options: having the ashes returned for 41,100,000 Vietnam dong (1,470) or receiving the body for 66,240,000 Vietnam dong (2,209). First to the scene were paramedics from the East of England Ambulance Service, who were praised by chief executive Dorothy Hosein for their "incredible professionalism in very difficult circumstances". 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. Want the latest Essex news direct to your inbox? [98] After confirmation that they were all from Vietnam, the Vietnamese government strongly condemned human trafficking and called on all countries to combat such activities to prevent a recurrence of the incident. The families of many of the victims had mortgaged their land to pay fees of up to 30,000 to people smugglers to take them in stages to the UK; the trial only focused on the final leg of the journey between France and Britain. [7][10][11], The Zeebrugge port chairman said it was "highly unlikely" the migrants entered the trailer there, and that breaking the seal, loading 39 people and resealing the trailer without being noticed would be "virtually impossible". Nica flew out of the country the next day. 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. There were days when he called ten times. I am sorry. But he couldn't find work in Germany. [83][6] Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, said that she was "shocked and saddened by this utterly tragic incident", and that Immigration Enforcement were working with the Essex Police. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? Some of the victims reassured their anxious families that they had paid extra for a so-called VIP journey to the UK which meant the lorry driver was helping them to cross the border, and there was no need for them to break into vehicles and stow themselves away. A 25-year-old lorry driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested, Essex Police says. [26] Names, ages and hometowns were released on 8 November; 20 were from Ngh An Province, 10 from H Tnh, 4 from Haiphong, 3 from Qung Bnh, 1 from Din Chu District and 1 from Tha Thin-Hu. The journey of 23 October and the earlier failed run on 14 October were connected, said Bill Emlyn Jones, who prosecuted the case. In an incident in Dover in June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals died in similar circumstances. [4] Following the incident, the Chief Executive of the charity group Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said that the British government needs to open safe routes and make quick decisions regarding asylum seekers to prevent such attempts, sentiments echoed by the Refugee and Migrant Rights Director of Amnesty International UK. [27], A murder investigation was launched on the morning of the day of the discovery. A 25-year-old Vietnamese woman is believed to be among the dead after her family received a haunting series of text messages. [69] Counsel for the Minister for Justice, Ronan Kennedy SC disagreed, calling the claim of extraterritoriality a red herring and that the court should not engage in a "fanciful debate" as to whether other states had jurisdiction to try these offences. From Bierne, the lorry is seen on CCTV footage making its way across France and towards the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, where it was left to be loaded unaccompanied on to a ferry called the MV Clementine. [77] Sentencing hearings for all eight guilty men are expected in January 2021. His co-conspirator Gheorghe Nica, 43, a Romanian lorry mechanic who helped coordinate the transport of the migrants, and who was found guilty last year of manslaughter and people-smuggling, was sentenced by Mr Justice Sweeney to 27 years in prison. Investigations revealed that they suffocated to death in 38 degrees in the refrigerated container, where all the oxygen was sucked out. 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. [35], On 25 October, police arrested a man and a woman from Warrington, Cheshire, on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people,[36] and another man at Stansted Airport regarding the same offences. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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.". A teenager's body was among the 39 discovered in the HGV at around 1.40am. [99], Families of those who died told reporters that they had been told that neither the British nor Vietnamese governments were willing to cover the cost of repatriating the bodies back to their homes. [51][52], On 29 January 2020, a man from Essex, who was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant, was detained in Frankfurt. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? On 23 October 2019 we were called to a scene that no officer could ever have prepared for. Essex Police said the people were all pronounced dead at the scene in an industrial park in Grays, east of London. He did not have a chance to fulfil his dream, they said in a statement. [13] The lorry was in Eastern Avenue at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex. Speaking to the emergency call handler, Robinson explained he had just lifted a trailer from the port and found immigrants in the back "lying on the ground.". Belgian officials said the eight women . During the investigation, there was one crucial piece of evidence which cracked the case "wide open", a recent documentary into the deaths revealed. [8] Belgian officials said the people were trapped in the trailer for at least 10 hours. Alexandru Hanga, 28, who performed a similar role on one occasion in October 2019, and who last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist unlawful migration, was sentenced to three years in prison. [69][70], On 28 August 2020 Ronan Hughes, from County Armagh, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found in the trailer. [49][50] In February 2020 five men and two women were charged in Vietnam with "organising or broking others to flee abroad or stay abroad illegally". We knew people who had already made the journey. [69] Judge Burns remanded the accused until 12 June 2020, when Ireland's High Court ordered his extradition to the UK. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Despite the shock and horror, less than 36 hours after the discovery, as little as six bunches were laid at the site of the mass murder - something we stepped in to change, calling for residents to join us in laying flowers at the scene. 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. "A load of immigrants just got out of a lorry, they just got into Mercedes and all that," Ms Andrews told the 999 operator. The victims were 28 men, eight women and three children, two of them aged 15. His boss, Hughes, had messaged him: "Give them air quickly don't let them out.". "They loaded too many people into a single trailer the people smugglers were under pressure to double up. 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. "I could visibly see numerous half-naked bodies in the back of the trailer, lying on the trailer floor motionless," he said. They had all paid huge sums of money to reach Britain in search of a better life - paying up to 13,000 each. Nguyen Van Hung's mother, Pham Thi Lan, agreed. It is seen beside a white police tent in the aerial shots. [19][20], Initially the police said the deceased were all Chinese nationals and the Chinese embassy in London sent officials to assist with identification. So he did.". Tiep's mother, Hoang Thi Ai, told the BBC why they had changed their minds. 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. "And finding out at the very last minute, and realising as you die, that the VIP service was a terrible lie, is exactly what you see from these organised crime groups. [89], In October 2021, the BBC broadcast the hour-long documentary Hunting the Essex Lorry Killers. Alongside the crucial testimony - giving a voice to the 39 - Essex Police was able to extradite Ronan Hughes back to the UK from Ireland. These are the first photographs of the lorry where 39 bodies were discovered today. On Saturday afternoon, Essex Police provided a fresh update revealing at the 25-year-old lorry driver had now been charged. Investigations are being led by Essex Police, and involve the national authorities of the UK, Belgium, Ireland and Vietnam. [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. (From left) Gheorghe Nica and Ronan Hughes were jailed for a total of 47 years, while Eamonn Harrison was sentenced to 18 years. Essex Police investigate serious crime scene on Cromer Road, Southend-On-Sea, Essex. "I saw some legs come out. Families were worried they could still be left in debt, despite over 84,000 having been raised to help them. [29][30], The lorry and bodies were moved from the scene to a secure location in Tilbury Docks, another nearby port on the Thames, to continue the investigation. [28] The National Crime Agency suggested that organised crime might be involved. The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK, [Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter, [Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday, The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019, After receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies, The moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV, Ronan Hughes (left) met Gheorghe Nica at a budget hotel in Thurrock, Essex, learned of his son's death via social media, admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation, US porn star declared unfit for sex crimes trial, Jeremy Renner TV show poster edited after accident, Celebrities who say their children will get no inheritance, Germany: We are no longer reliant on Russian energy, City asks Madonna if it can borrow her painting, Keep cake away from office, says food adviser.

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