Maurice Mo Robinson, 26, was part of a million-pound people-smuggling ring
Gang brought people into Britain in back of lorries - earning him £100,000
In October 2019, Robinson opened back of his refrigerated trailer in Grays, Essex
Was met with a gush of steam and the 39 bodies of people who died on journey
Robinson admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and is now facing sentencing
Robinson called Ronan Hughes - the gang s ringleader - when he found bodies
The final moments of the victims were played at the Old Bailey on Thursday
A source told the Sunday World: “Seeing his kids is the only thing keeping him going.”
But it has now emerged Robinson, who is languishing in Belmarsh Category A Prison in London, requested mental health support in the aftermath of his grisly discovery.
“Mo is being haunted by the mental images of what he found in the back of his trailer,” said a former friend.
“He was suffering badly, having nightmares and losing sleep because he’d seen all the bodies lying down and he couldn’t get the image out of his head.
“The prison had to get him help because they have a duty of care to him. That’s the irony – Mo was part of a smuggling gang that killed those poor people, yet he needed grief counselling to recover.
Mass killer truck driver Mo Robinson has needed special counselling after he was haunted by his terrible crime, Sunday World has revealed.
Sources close to the greedy 26-year-old say he was traumatised after discovering 39 bodies in the back of the trailer he’d just collected at Purfleet, Essex, in October last year.
Earlier this year Sunday World revealed how racist Robinson had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of the Vietnamese migrants just a few days after his partner had given birth to twins.
It can be revealed Robinson has met his daughters who have made a number of visits.
A source told the Sunday World: “Seeing his kids is the only thing keeping him going.”
Jurors heard Hughes charged migrants £13,000 each to get to Britain on ferries from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, while posing as a legitimate haulier.
But 28 men, eight women and three children suffocated inside a pitch black, air-tight lorry container when the temperature hit 101F.
The court heard Hughes and Nica were driven by greed and their normal human cargo was between 15 and 20.
But they decided to “double up” after one of their shipments was tumbled by the French authorities near Calais a few days before.
Jurors were told how on the morning of October 22 last year, Harrison picked up 39 migrants from Bierne, northern France. His trailer was loaded at Zeebrugge in the afternoon.
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