[27], A murder investigation was launched on the morning of the day of the discovery. These are the first photographs of the lorry where 39 bodies were discovered today. [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. Nine people have so far been convicted of crimes related to the incident in the UK and a further nineteen have been jailed in Belgium. 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. My thoughts are with all those who lost their lives & their loved ones.". 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. The four defendants charged with manslaughter all said they had not intended harm to the victims, but the judge noted that the conspiracy was committed for financial gain. 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. Crammed into the back of Robinson's lorry were two cousins who were more than 6,000 miles (9,656km) from home. Ten teenagers including two 15-year-old boys were among the 39 people found dead in a lorry . [63], On 17 June 2021 a Vietnamese man who is being sought by Belgian authorities for extradition in connection with the deaths was arrested at a supermarket petrol station in Middlesbrough. The two main offenders, Ronan Hughes and Gheorghe Nica, were given 20 years (for 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiring to bring people into the country unlawfully) and 27 years (for manslaughter and people-smuggling), respectively. I want to come back to my family. We've just seen what has been said online. [77] Sentencing hearings for all eight guilty men are expected in January 2021. Police have begun the process of moving the bodies of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex. He was accused of "conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-EU person". Eleven of the victims - believed to be Chinese nationals - were taken by ambulance from . [84] Diane Abbott, Shadow Home Secretary, said greater international co-operation was needed to prevent similar events happening again. 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. Mr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half. [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. Families of Vietnamese migrants found dead in lorry in Essex to be paid 180,000, Essex lorry deaths: Man charged with 39 counts of manslaughter appears in court, Essex lorry deaths: Police release image of suspect Marius Draghici wanted in connection with deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals. Parents of one of the youngest victims, Nguyen Huy Hung, who was 15 when he died, paid tribute to their peaceful and smart son. Both Robinson and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiring to assist unlawful immigration. Five people were found not guilty. "No-one would choose to travel in such a dangerous way," she said. Those inside had stripped to their underwear in the sweltering heat and tried to bash their way out of the trailer's roof. [46][47] In February 2020, the man was given leave to appeal the extradition judgment. 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. [75] On 8 April 2021, his extradition was approved. Want the latest Essex news direct to your inbox? [51][52], On 29 January 2020, a man from Essex, who was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant, was detained in Frankfurt. 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 . Murder detectives try to identify 38 adults and teenager thought to have come in trailer from Belgium. Police ensured they were taken to the mortuary, and then had their post-mortem examinations carried out, together. 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. 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. [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. [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. Read about our approach to external linking. "He didn't go straight to the UK, he went to Germany first. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK. In the days after the news broke, Waterglade Industrial Estate was swarmed by police, forensics and press. A 25-year-old lorry driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested, Essex Police says. On Saturday afternoon, Essex Police provided a fresh update revealing at the 25-year-old lorry driver had now been charged. Belgian officials said the eight women . He was described as an organiser for the people-trafficking organisation, arranging accommodation and transit for money. 2023 BBC. 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. Eight women and 31 men were sealed inside the vehicle for at least 12 hours as temperatures reached an "unbearable" 38.5C (101F). Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 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. Helicopter video shows the Lorry in Essex where 39 bodies were found, Thirty-nine people, including a teenager, have been found dead inside a lorry container, Witnesses near the industrial estate described the 'awful' scene, Police are seen at the industrial estate today. Nica flew out of the country the next day. [61] On 14 April 2021 he pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial in 2023. In the BBC documentary Hunting the Essex Lorry Killers, it shared some of the devastating testimonies from the victims' families. He was charged with unrelated offences. Have a good life. 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.". [24][25] By 7 November, all of the deceased had been formally identified. Someone said he should go to the UK. "A load of immigrants just got out of a lorry, they just got into Mercedes and all that," Ms Andrews told the 999 operator. [51] On 16 March 2020, a man from Birmingham was charged with an immigration offence related to the incident. On Monday . Read about our approach to external linking. The discovery of the Thurrock 39 all began with one 999 call from 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson. 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. [8] Belgian officials said the people were trapped in the trailer for at least 10 hours. It was here that a number of people were seen being delivered by taxi to an agricultural shed, before later clambering into a lorry. When Witness X finally arrived in the UK, he and the other migrants were met by a fleet of black cars at Orsett Farm, in Orsett, Essex. Sweeney said there was a need for deterrent sentences because the control of immigration, which affects the social fabric of our country, our economy and our security is an area of considerable public concern. Robinson had driven from Holyhead, a major Irish Sea port in north-west Wales, to collect the trailer. 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. Harrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched "a wee bit of Netflix" in bed as they were loaded on. 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. [69] Counsel for the defence argued that many of the alleged offences occurred outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom and that the extradition warrant was unclear about whether the United Kingdom was asserting that the alleged offences occurred in UK jurisdiction or were extraterritorial. Each passenger paid smugglers between 10,000 and 13,000 to be brought from northern France. [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. 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. Essex lorry deaths: UK Vietnamese group hands photos of missing to police. 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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. A screengrab of Maurice Robinson leaving Purfleet port. The father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media. "We thought maybe someone had broken into a lorry, but it's just awful. The driver of the trailer spoke only to hurry them along, Witness X told the court. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? 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Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Many of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK. "They loaded too many people into a single trailer the people smugglers were under pressure to double up. He called us all the time. [69] Judge Burns remanded the accused until 12 June 2020, when Ireland's High Court ordered his extradition to the UK. During the lengthy court cases at the Old Bailey in London, shocking details from the tragedy were uncovered. Robinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October. 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. 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. A National Crime Agency spokesman said that the individual was "suspected by the Belgian authorities of having played a key role in placing at least 10 migrants inside that lorry. He was immediately released having already served his sentence in custody. 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. However the involvement of the lorry drivers offered them no protection when too many people were packed into one container. 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. "I can't breathe," he said. Sixteen days after police officers found the pile of bodies in the back of the refrigerated lorry. What led to her and 38 fellow Vietnamese nationals dying in the dark and sweltering heat of an airtight container? Officers discovered a metal post on the lorry floor. 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. What she was seeing was a people-smuggling operation run by the same gang responsible for the 39 deaths. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. RM 2B4WWCW - Southend, Essex, UK. I am sorry. Det Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: "May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals. Witness X asked that friend for help. Essex Police investigate serious crime scene on Cromer Road, Southend-On-Sea, Essex. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead. Maurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead. [59], On 15 December 2020, a Vietnamese man who was believed to have been involved in transporting 10 of the 39 migrants from a safehouse in Anderlecht was arrested in Redditch by National Crime Agency officers on a European Arrest Warrant issued by a Belgian judge. A 25-year-old Vietnamese woman is believed to be among the dead after her family received a haunting series of text messages. 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. Three others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration. 7th March 2020. [66] He was remanded in custody until 13 December when he appeared in court, via a video link from Belmarsh Prison in London where he was being held until his trial. All 39 people who were found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex have now been named. "There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container," the judge said. They died excruciatingly slow deaths, the judge said, of asphyxia and hyperthermia, or overheating. Maurice Robinson, of Laurel Drive in Craigavon, Nothern Ireland, was arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the bodies were found at the Waterglade Industrial Estate. [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. [90], Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, said in a tweet that the embassy was in "close contact with the British police to seek clarification and confirmation of the relevant reports" and that "we read with heavy heart the reports about the death of 39 people". [5] In the evening of 23 October, the Belgian prosecutor's office announced that they would also investigate the lorry's transit through their country. The Vietnamese 45-year-old was among 18 people who were convicted of being involved in the deaths of 31 men and eight women aged between 15 and 44. [38] After extended questioning, on 26 October Essex Police charged the driver they had arrested with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering. [1][4], The lorry cab and the trailer arrived separately in Purfleet, Essex, from where they travelled together the short distance to Grays. In the CNN report, this question was described to be "about the possibility of Chinese citizens being illegally trafficked" and "was rebuffed by the spokesperson". "I am receiving regular updates from the Home Office & will work closely with Essex Police as we establish exactly what has happened. GPS data showed it had previously travelled to Dunkirk and Lille in France and Bruges in Belgium. 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. The victims were 28 men, eight women and three children, two of them aged 15. The deaths have been a wake-up call for police. Northern Irish lorry driver, Christopher Kennedy, 24, and Valentin Calota, 38, a pickup driver from Romania, were both convicted of conspiring to smuggle people into the country unlawfully. 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. Early indications suggest the victims are 38 adults and one teenager. Along with lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, he has been found guilty of manslaughter. 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. Essex crime: Rayleigh mum and son jailed for collective ten years for wanting to sell 750,000 of cocaine Crime Bookmark Person tries to chase driver fleeing scene of Romford lamppost crash - but falls over and is taken to hospital Romford Bookmark Boy, aged 15, charged after teen found with stabbed leg and knife recovered near Barking tube station He waited 20 minutes before calling emergency services. "It's hard to say whether that would change the outcome but we have changed nationally the way that we deal with organised immigration crimes.". Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. 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. Families were worried they could still be left in debt, despite over 84,000 having been raised to help them. 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". "Many people around here go overseas to find work. He had wanted to give his wife and three children a better life. Something went wrong, please try again later. That call between Robinson and Hughes then triggered a flurry of further communications between other men involved in the trafficking operation. [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. He was charged with 41 offences, including 39 of manslaughter, and extradition proceedings began in the Irish High Court. In September 2019, the younger cousin asked his parents if he could travel to the UK. "All we know is they found the bodies in the back of a lorry. [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. [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. "Maybe going to die in the container, can't breathe any more dear," read a text message typed by Pham Thi Ngoc Oanh. Temperatures in the unit had reached an "unbearable" 38.5C (101F) as the migrants were sealed inside for at least 12 hours, the court heard. Antnio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, tweeted that those responsible "must be swiftly brought to justice". [37] On 27 October, it was announced that these three had been released on bail. mike gibbins cause of death; is neil norman any relation to barry norman; new fairfield first selectman salary; hershey red azalea care; spring boot rest api return list of objects; peter and philippa mitchell; skagit valley park ranger academy; recent arrests in torrington, ct; least intelligent celebrities; saenz v roe strict scrutiny 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. 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