A man has admitted manslaughter after the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a lorry container in Essex. The men, women and children were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October in Grays.Haulier Ronan Hughes,…
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Ronan Hughes, 40, of Co Armagh, accused of involvement in people smuggling
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Human trafficker, 27, admits helping to smuggle 39 Vietnamese migrants into UK before they died in the back of a refrigerated lorry
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LONDON >> A truck driver accused in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found inside a refrigerated container that had been hauled to England pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday.
Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon in North…
A UK driver has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in the UK’s Essex county last year.
On Wednesday, lorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, from Craigavon in Northern Ireland, pleaded g…
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Maurice Robinson makes plea after 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in refrigerated truck
Police activity after 39 bodies were found inside a container in Essex.
Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA
A lorry drive…
A lorry driver has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck.
The bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered by emergency services at an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, shortly af…
Published at 3:24pm 8th April 2020. (Updated at 4:14pm 8th April 2020)
A lorry driver has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated container in Essex.
Maurice Robinson, 25, from Craigavon in Nor…
Police activity at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, after 39 bodies were found inside a lorry container on the industrial estate Picture: AARON CHOWN/PA WIRE
The bodies of the eight females and 31 males were discovered at an industrial estate in Grays shortly after a container arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge in the early hours of October 23.
Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland, who appeared virtually at the Old Bailey on Wednesday afternoon, had previously admitted conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and acquiring criminal property at the same court in November.
An investigation into an alleged people-smuggling ring led to charges against five men, including Robinson, who admitted 39 counts of manslaughter.
The prosecution asked for three weeks to consider going ahead with a trial on a further charge of transferring criminal property, denied by Robinson, who appeared before Mr Justice Sweeney alongside four co-defendants.
British Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, of Mimosa Close, in Langdon Hills, Essex, denied 39 counts of manslaughter and one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
Romanian national Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 27, of Hobart Road, in Tilbury, denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
Christopher Kennedy, 23, of Corkley Road, in Darkley, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has previously denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
The fifth defendant, Valentin Calota, 37, of Cossington Road, in Birmingham, was not asked to enter a plea to conspiring to assist unlawful immigration.
Prosecutor William Emlyn Jones QC said a human trafficking conspiracy charge in relation to Kennedy and Robinson was being dropped by the Crown.
Robinson’s co-defendants now face trial at the Old Bailey, lasting up to eight weeks, from October 5.
Eamonn Harrison, 22, of Mayobridge, Northern Ireland, has been granted leave to appeal his extradition to the UK to face 39 charges of manslaughter and a charge of conspiracy to traffic people, as well as conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
A further hearing will be held in Dublin on Thursday, May 7.
Essex Police said it continued to work with the prosecution service, international law enforcement, including the National Crime Agency, and government offices in the UK and Vietnam.
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