The 39 Chinese migrants who were found dead in the back of a lorry had travelled 5,000 miles and could have been locked in the freezing trailer for … A 23-year-old Northern Irishman has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter over migrants found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex. A Dutch lorry driver has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement in the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants at Dover. The trip can take months, even years. The lorry driver charged with the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who died in a refrigerated trailer has pleaded guilty to plotting to assist illegal immigration.
Police in Northern Ireland are carrying out raids as detectives continue to probe the journey of a lorry driver and his vehicle that carried 39 migrants to their deaths. The refrigerated trailer was leased on 15 October from a rental company in County Monaghan. This industrial estate east of London is a grim place to die.
The Dutch driver of the lorry, Perry Wacker, was jailed for 14 years in April 2001 for the manslaughter of the immigrants, who had paid a criminal gang thousands to be smuggled into the UK.
It was selected for examination by officers from HM Customs & Excise who then called the police and ambulance service.
The bodies of Vietnamese migrants who died when human traffickers locked them in a refrigerated lorry have been repatriated to their home country today and taken to …
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 18 June 2000, just before midnight, 58 dead bodies were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, United Kingdom. The Dutch lorry came from a ferry that had arrived from Zeebrugge in Belgium. The jury at Maidstone Crown Court found Perry Wacker guilty of 58 charges of manslaughter, as well as four counts of conspiracy to smuggle immigrants into the UK.
POLICE have found nine suspected migrants in the back of a lorry on the M20 hours after 39 have been found dead in Essex sending shockwaves across the UK. Essex lorry deaths - A huge group of Chinese migrants were found dead discovered in Grays, Essex Credit: Splash News. THE 39 migrants who died in the back of a lorry trailer in Essex left bloody handprints on the inside doors of the metal container, it has been reported. T he 39 migrants found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex are believed to be Vietnamese nationals, police have said. The 39 migrants found dead in the back of a lorry in an industrial park in Grays, Essex, are all Vietnamese nationals, police have said.