Belgian court of appeal on Thursday (Feb 23) lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019. The Ghent court of appeal sentenced Vo Van Hong to 10 years in prison, reducing his original prison sentence by five years,...
JB Nguyen Dinh Gia shows a barbell which was used by his son Joseph Nguyen Dinh Luyen, a suspected victim of 39 deaths in a truck container in UK, at home in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam on Oct 27, 2019.Belgian court of appeal on Thursday lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019.
"He took advantage of desperate people and wanted to make as much profit as possible. His victims were his income and the safety of the refugees was not a priority in any way", the court said in a summary of the case.
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