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Four jailed for manslaughter of Vietnamese migrants
    2021-01-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

FOUR people-smugglers were given lengthy prison sentences Friday for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex in 2019.

The victims perished in the refrigerated container on a ferry journey across the English Channel.

The longest sentences were handed to the two ringleaders. Ronan Hughes, the 41-year-old owner of an Irish road freight business, was given a 20-year sentence at the Old Bailey court in London. He had previously pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiring to unlawfully bring people into Britain.

Hughes’ co-conspirator, Romanian truck mechanic Gheorghe Nica, aged 43, was given a 27-year prison term after being found guilty of manslaughter and people smuggling. Nica had helped coordinate the transport of the migrants to Britain from Belgium.

Truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, from Northern Ireland, was sentenced to 18 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter and people smuggling. He had collected the truck in mainland Europe and drove the container.

A second truck driver Maurice Robinson, aged 26, also from Northern Ireland, was sentenced to 13 years and four months. Robinson collected the container when it arrived in Britain from the European continent. He pleaded guilty earlier to manslaughter and people smuggling.

(Xinhua)

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