A week later, she saw the same red-cabbed lorry in front of her home, near the village golf club, during yet another smuggling run. "The day he left it was 6th September. [94][95][96] [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. 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. 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. He knew, in his own words, what had happened was "very, very bad" and that there would be a "big investigation". Police were called at 5am. Something went wrong, please try again later. He was charged with unrelated offences. [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. Our enquiries are ongoing to establish what has happened. [12], On 23 October 2019, shortly after 01:40 BST, staff of the East of England Ambulance Service responding to a 999 call made by the driver, Maurice Robinson, who found 39 bodies in a refrigerated articulated lorry. Mr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half. When it became obvious that there was insufficient oxygen they made desperate attempts to escape through the roof of the lorry, and tried to call emergency services in Vietnam. 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people from China, the world's second-biggest economy, risk their lives to enter the UK? The prosecution described the people-smuggling conspiracy as sophisticated, long-running and profitable. "This time, they simply had too many people on board," he told the Old Bailey. 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. [76], On 21 December 2020, verdicts were returned on Romanian ringleader Gheorghe Nica of Basildon and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison from County Down. The two ringleaders of the people-smuggling gang responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people who suffocated in a sealed refrigeration container as they were transported across the Channel from France have received prison sentences of 27 and 20 years. [51][52], On 29 January 2020, a man from Essex, who was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant, was detained in Frankfurt. [4] Other refugee groups have expressed concern that the border confusion surrounding Brexit will give more opportunities for groups to commit similar crimes. 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. Robinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. [88] The first part was broadcast on 4 November after re-editing in the light of the 39 deaths, despite the Home Office describing the timing as "both insensitive and irresponsible". [69] Judge Burns remanded the accused until 12 June 2020, when Ireland's High Court ordered his extradition to the UK. [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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Witness X was taken to Phong's house in south London, where he stayed until his parents had "paid his fare" - a fare Witness X described as "too much" for what was supposed to be another "VIP" trip. Who are the victims in the Essex lorry tragedy? 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He was described as an organiser for the people-trafficking organisation, arranging accommodation and transit for money. [19][20], Initially the police said the deceased were all Chinese nationals and the Chinese embassy in London sent officials to assist with identification. [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. [59] The police operation was organised with a cross-border team organised by Eurojust that included Belgium, France, the UK and Ireland. [61] On 14 April 2021 he pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in 2023. Ten teenagers including two 15-year-old boys were among the 39 people found dead in a lorry . Christopher Kennedy, 24, another lorry driver from Northern Ireland who was involved in earlier people-smuggling runs bringing Vietnamese migrants from Northern Ireland, was sentenced to seven years. 48 year old Romanian national Marius Mihai Draghici is believed to be part of the conspiracy to smuggle the migrants into the UK. His father, Hoang Van Lanh, believed his son was tricked, possibly at the last moment. "We thought maybe someone had broken into a lorry, but it's just awful. Police ensured they were taken to the mortuary, and then had their post-mortem examinations carried out, together. 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. There they found the 39 migrants dead in the back of a refrigerated . [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". [28] The National Crime Agency suggested that organised crime might be involved. What she was seeing was a people-smuggling operation run by the same gang responsible for the 39 deaths. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. "He told me that he would only go on a 'VIP package', in a private car," she said. All of the paramedics who attended that night were offered "enhanced support" from the service's well-being team in the aftermath, she said. Inside was an almost unimaginable sight: 39 people, 10 of them teenagers, were dead. He was accused of "conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-EU person". "The manager went to get into work this morning and it was cordoned off and we've been moved to a different area," Mr Freeland said. Someone said he should go to the UK. They're all lying on the ground. On Saturday afternoon, Essex Police provided a fresh update revealing at the 25-year-old lorry driver had now been charged. The bodies of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex were so closely packed together the first policeman on the scene could not check them all for signs of life, a court has heard. Robinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October. [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. 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. "No-one would choose to travel in such a dangerous way," she said. Both were found guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to transport and assist illegal migrants. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Crammed into the back of Robinson's lorry were two cousins who were more than 6,000 miles (9,656km) from home. I am sorry. Those inside had stripped to their underwear in the sweltering heat and tried to bash their way out of the trailer's roof. [60] In March 2021, the man appeared in court again accused by Belgian authorities of being a member of a criminal organisation, being involved in human trafficking and using forged documents. [4][14] The lorry driver was a 25-year-old man from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In the days after the news broke, Waterglade Industrial Estate was swarmed by police, forensics and press. Essex Police said the people were all pronounced dead at the scene in an industrial park in Grays, east of London. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK. Instead of immediately dialling 999 in the early hours of 23 October, 2019, the 26-year-old's first instinct was to get back in to his cab and drive off from the estate in Grays, with the bodies in the trailer behind him. [79], On 22 January 2021 the culprits were jailed for the incident. Relatives said the victims had hoped to take up work in restaurants and nail bars in Britain, and planned to send their earnings home to help support their families. Each passenger paid smugglers between 10,000 and 13,000 to be brought from northern France. I cannot take care of you. He added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called "Fong", who was based in London. [55] On 29 April 2020 he appeared before the High Court via videolink, during which he was described as the "ringleader" of a criminal gang. [18], On 11 February 2020, Essex Police said that post-mortems gave a combination of hypoxia and hyperthermia as the provisional causes of death. 7th March 2020. (From left) Gheorghe Nica and Ronan Hughes were jailed for a total of 47 years, while Eamonn Harrison was sentenced to 18 years. The families of the victims who lost their lives continue to mourn their losses, with many still struggling with the debts of the money they spent in search of a better life. "All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death. [59] Thirteen people were arrested in France. Det Ch Insp Stoten said: "The officers who attended that - most of them were very young in service and some of them had never experienced a dead person, a deceased person, before. From this point onwards, a sensor inside the trailer tells its own story of a relentless rise in temperature. [59] Authorities said a series of simultaneous early morning raids had taken place in both countries on 25 May 2020. 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. Alongside the crucial testimony - giving a voice to the 39 - Essex Police was able to extradite Ronan Hughes back to the UK from Ireland. Hughes, of County Monaghan, Ireland, and Robinson, who took the initial 999 call had previously admitted manslaughter. On all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end. Police later moved the bodies to a mortuary at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford for post-mortems to be carried out. I want to come back to my family. 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. Officer Maxime Saison was on duty in France that night and told how the migrants, speaking in English, confirmed they were Vietnamese and had no documentation. Germany: We are no longer reliant on Russian energy, City asks Madonna if it can borrow her painting, US porn star declared unfit for sex crimes trial, Jeremy Renner TV show poster edited after accident, Keep cake away from office, says food adviser, Maximum two drinks a week, Canada guidance advises. He was one of the organisers of the smuggling operation but denied involvement in the lethal trip. 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. 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. Matthew Long, deputy director of National Crime Agency, said the whole idea of some kind of special service was a con. [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. Smugglers often force migrants to work off the cost of the trip in slave-like conditions. The friend put him in touch with a Vietnamese mystery man called Phong. At the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter. 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. 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. Earlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. [16][17] There have been a number of incidents in which migrants to Europe died or were injured as a result of dangerous transportation methods. Signing up to the newsletter is simple. Glen Freeland, from GSF Car Parts which is close to where the bodies were found, said staff could not access the shop on Eastern Avenue on Wednesday morning. "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.". Both Robinson and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiring to assist unlawful immigration. 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. [43] Two days later, the prosecutor said that the lorry driver pretended that the trailer was filled with cookies and biscuits. He was also a good player. The migrants died "excruciatingly painful" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said. In addition, Valentin Calota from Birmingham and Christopher Kennedy, from County Armagh, were found guilty of immigration offences. 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. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 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. Update: Essex police have confirmed that no further action will be taken against Christopher Hughes. Read about our approach to external linking. Lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and van driver Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, were also convicted of being part of the people-smuggling plot. "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. There's approximately 25. [80], On 21 March 2022, Dragos-Stefan Damian was jailed for three years and ten months after being found guilty of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. Hughes, 41, and lorry driver Maurice Robinson, 26, had previously admitted the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex in October 2019. In an incident in Dover in June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals died in similar circumstances. White forensic tents were erected and camera crews were set up to document the investigation as the eyes of the world looked on. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? A 25-year-old lorry driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested, Essex Police says. [78] Prosecutors are considering charges against a further three people. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [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. Image: Police and forensics at the crime scene in Grays, Essex, in October 2019 The victims died from suffocation and hyperthermia in the confined space of the truck, which arrived on a ferry from . [69] The fact that many locations were mentioned in the warrant did not mean that the offences were extraterritorial and the accused was in the UK and had acted to further an act of conspiracy that underpinned the charges of manslaughter. The victims died from suffocation and hyperthermia in the confined space of the truck, which arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium. "My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.". He said the victims died in an "unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals". A screengrab of Maurice Robinson leaving Purfleet port. He slowly brought the lorry to a stop at the industrial estate, got out of the cab and opened the trailer door. "We are working with Thurrock Council to mitigate against any impact our investigation scene will have locally.". "[64], in July 2022, Essex Police released an image of a man who is wanted in connection with the deaths. 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. The crime scene is just a short distance from intu Lakeside shopping centre and the M25 Dartford Crossing. 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