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Victims included women and children desperate for a better life when they paid up to £14,000 each for a “VIP” smuggling service.
Three Irish men jailed for 39 migrant deaths in Essex
Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021
19:52
Maurice Robinson, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison (l-r)
Three Irish men and a ringleader of a people smuggling gang have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 migrants who suffered an excruciating death in an airtight trailer.
The victims, Vietnamese men, woman and children, had hoped for a better life when they agreed to pay up to €14,590-a-head for a VIP smuggling service.
Maurice Robinson, 26, from Craigavon, and his boss Ronan Hughes, 41, from Armagh, had admitted plotting to people smuggle and 39 counts of manslaughter.
Hughes s partner-in-crime Gheorghe Nica, 43, from Basildon, Essex, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, of Co Down, who had collected the victims on the continent, were found guilty of the offences.
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