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Scores of mobile phones were found in the lorry belonging to the people who died. They had used their phones to see in the darkness and to try to message loved ones, in vain, as they slipped away. One of the phones belonged to 26 year old Pham Thi Tra My. It is over a year since her parents found out about their daughter s death. On the living room wall of their house, in the Can Loc District of Vietnam s central Ha Tinh Province, there is a shrine to Tra My. The flowers on the shelf around her photograph are freshly cut. ....
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. ....
Two found guilty of Vietnamese migrant lorry deaths Top Story December 22, 2020 LONDON: Members of a million-pound people-smuggling ring could be facing life behind bars for the manslaughter of 39 migrants. The Vietnamese migrants, aged between 15 and 44, were found dead in the back of a trailer in Essex on October 23 last year. They had suffocated in sweltering temperatures as the airtight container was shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet. The “unscrupulous” gang behind the illegal shipment were motivated by greed as they pursued profits of more than £1 million that month alone. Following a 10-week trial, Romanian ringleader Gheorghe Nica, 43, from Basildon, and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, from County Down, were found guilty on Monday of 39 counts of manslaughter. They were also convicted of their part in the people-smuggling operation with lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham. ....
Lorry tragedy Northern Ireland man Eamonn Harrison and co-accused face life in jail over deaths of 39 migrants in lorry Updated: 21 Dec 2020, 15:46 A NORTHERN Ireland man and his co-accused face life in jail over the deaths of 39 migrants who suffocated in the back of a lorry. Eamonn Harrison, 24, and Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, were found guilty of manslaughter at London’s Old Bailey today. 3 The lorry was found with 39 bodies in after the victims were smuggled into the UKCredit: PA:Press Association 3 Another man, Christopher Kennedy from Keady, Co Armagh, was found guilty of conspiracy. The migrants, all from Vietnam, were being brought into the UK as part of a money-spinning international people smuggling operation. ....
During the cross-Channel trip on board the Clementine, the group had desperately tried to raise the alarm, even calling the Vietnamese emergency number, as they ran out of air. When they found there was no mobile phone signal in the trailer, some recorded goodbye messages to their families. Nguyen Tho Tuan, 25, told his family: I am sorry. I cannot take care of you. I am sorry. I am sorry. I cannot breathe. I want to come back to my family. Have a good life. A metal pole had been used to try to punch through the roof of the refrigerated container, but only managed to dent the interior. ....