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Four people-smugglers convicted of killing 39 people from Vietnam who died in the back of a container truck as it was shipped to England were sentenced Friday to between 13 and 27 years in prison.
The victims, between the ages of 15 and 44, were found in October 2019 inside a refrigerated container that had traveled by ferry from Belgium to the eastern England port of Purfleet. The migrants had paid people-smugglers thousands of dollars to take them on risky journeys to what they hoped would be better lives abroad.
Instead, Judge Nigel Sweeney said, “all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death” by suffocation in the airtight container.
V kamionu se udusilo 39 migrantů Pašeráci dostali přísné tresty
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4 jailed over manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants in 2019
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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.