39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, suffocated in scorching temperatures in an articulated trailer in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Marius Mihai Draghici, 50, received a sentence of 12 years and seven months, after pleading guilty last month to 39 counts of manslaughter and one of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.in an articulated trailer brought to the UK from Belgium in October 2019.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones earlier told Garnham the migrants’ final hours “must have entailed unimaginable suffering and anguish”. But during the trip from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Purfleet-on-Thames in Essex, temperatures became sweltering.
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